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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " I think that information is available from the titles that I have produced. The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), in appropriate circumstances, has leased part of their airport land to essential services like Nairobi Airport Services (NAS). It has been allocated land. The Kenya Police has land within the KAA land. Those leases were all registered under the mother title. They are all there. In fact, they are so many. They include the World Duty Free. All those leases are contained in this title. As relates to Bandani Estate in Kisumu, let me say this: I want to share this with my colleagues in the Cabinet. It is wrong for any reason to carry out evictions contrary to what is laid down in the Constitution. I am pleading with the Minister in charge of internal security that, from now on, we should coordinate these matters together, so that the kind of demolitions that have been carried out in the thick of the night--- There is a time when I used to say in this House that the Government at that time would work during the day and go to sleep at night. Those were those days. But it looks like in some instances, especially in carrying out evictions, the Government is actually very active at night. I think decency requires that no such evictions are carried out at unearthly hours. Soon, we will be putting before the Cabinet a Bill that we have drafted, which shows a clear protocol on how to carry out evictions in a manner consistent with the Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the point made by the Chairman of the Joint Committee--- I want to thank Mr. Mutava Musyimi because largely, if you read the Report, I do not think I find anything objectionable in the Report. If you look at it in an objective manner, we should look at what kind of circumstances to come out with a clear framework of dealing with what has been called the rot in the Ministry of Lands. I accept that. What I am saying in regard to what he was saying--- He said: “We went into camera because of the Moi Airbase.” It is true that we went into camera because of Moi Airbase. But we continued to be in camera for the entire sitting, including when evidence was being adduced on other matters which had nothing to do with the Moi Airbase. I think that is factual. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Lessonet talked about the issue of demolitions and whether they are going to continue. I think I have made the point. The Attorney-General actually made this point before the Committee. If one may say lawyers think alike, I think this is such a case. I can assure the House that I am going to ask for the Attorney-General’s support to pilot those eviction guidelines, although it is a law and order issue. It is not a land issue. I am going to ask him, together with the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, that we should very quickly have this Bill before the House for discussion and enactment. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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