{"id":680583,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/680583/?format=json","text_counter":463,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. ole Kenta","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":420,"legal_name":"Richard Moitalel ole Kenta","slug":"richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"},"content":"Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I would like to confirm that I am seconding this Motion. I would also like to commend the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands because they have done a tremendous job and the Committee should be congratulated. This is a constitutional Bill. The speed with which the Mediation Committee carried out its mandate is commendable. Issues of land in Kenya are very emotive, as the Chairman has said. As the pastoralist community and the people from the Coast, we really got involved with the Committee and they listened to us because those are the areas that still have community land. Those parcels of land are affected by the said laws. The most important thing is that out of the 100 and above clauses only seven came for mediation and the changes were minimal. That points to the fact that the stakeholders - the National Assembly and the Senate - agreed. That is how we should conduct ourselves when it comes to these laws. I perused through the changes and I do not need to go through all of them. I would just like to talk about the pre-emptive rights where families have been disinherited. People wait like vultures for the expiry of leases such that when a family owns land they do not even know that the land is being repossessed. Those issues must be addressed. This law must address this The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."}