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    "id": 657211,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/657211/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng'ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I support the amendment. Why? I thought the Committee was supposed to help us bring clarity to the various land laws we have. They have not done that. If you look at the Constitution, it is clear that under Article 67(2)(b), the function of the NLC is to recommend. The words to note there are “to recommend” and not “to make” or “to provide” a national land policy to the national Government. That can be the CS. When you give the CS the functions of the NLC and say that he is supposed to provide policy direction regarding all classes of land, it is not proper. The Committee would have helped us by bringing clarity. If you leave it like this, it will conflict with the responsibility given to NLC. I urge the Chairman of the Committee to provide a further amendment to bring clarity. He should have said that the CS will provide policy direction regarding all classes of land after getting recommendations from NLC. I will be comfortable with that."
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