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    "id": 658444,
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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": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. First of all, I want to disagree with the Chairman of the Committee. He said this section of the National Land Commission Act, 2015 is not consistent with the Constitution. The Constitution, under Article 63(3), says that the National Land Commission may perform any other functions prescribed by the National Assembly or national legislation. I had the privilege to sit in this House in the year 2012 to pass this provision into law. Under the National Land Commission Act, we decided, as a House, to give the commission power to recommend to Parliament appropriate legislation to provide for investigation and adjudication of claims arising out of historical land injustices. That was for purposes of Article 67(2)(e) of the Constitution within two years of its appointment. We need to understand where these land laws came from. Historical land injustices are one of the causes of the violence of 2007. As a country, we set in motion to actualise what we used to call Agenda 4. We expected the NLC to bring a legislation or Bill to Parliament. It is not an amendment like what the Committee is trying to do. I have information that the NLC had forwarded a draft Bill to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) and because historical land injustices are a thorn in the flesh of many people in this country, the Cabinet Secretary decided to sit on that legislation. They are now trying to use the Committee to bring some superfluous amendments to the Land laws."
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