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    "id": 710827,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nderitu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Waweru Nderitu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. As I second this Motion, as the Departmental Committee on Lands, we have handled a lot of petitions on issues of land irregularity. This Report was tabled on 24th November 2015. It has been the agony of this Committee to have this Report and others touching on corrupt matters involving land to be tabled, debated and adopted by this House so that we can feel that we are doing our work effectively as far as the issue at hand is concerned. I would like to report that in the process we found ourselves getting a lot of frustrations from unknown quarters. As the Mover has indicated, even some of the people we called to come and give evidence on this matter blatantly refused to come for reasons we could not understand. When we commenced investigations into the graft involving the land in Mombasa, the matter was taken lightly but when we started searching for in-depth information, most of the people concerned, including the technical officers at the NLC and the Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development started giving divided opinions. I can quote the Chairperson of the NLC because he was the one mandated to investigate the matter first. He had given preliminary indications that the land was illegally acquired, and that he had given certain directions on how he wanted the matter handled. When we called them again later, we were told that the files at the Lands Office were not available. I remember calling the chairman of the NLC and asking him to shed more light on this matter. By then we had already been given enough information by the Vice-Chair. He came and took us round in circles without giving us documents at all. Every time he was called upon to shed light on the matter, he would say that the conflict between the NLC and the Ministry is making him not to get any records. However, when 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."
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