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    "id": 768447,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "I have got a list of more than 3,000 widows and they do not have ways of accessing the title deeds. We should get a way of having a fund which can take care of succession costs so that these people can be given their title deeds. I even went to see the CS for Lands on this very issue. I am happy this Bill is coming now, because it is opening a window through which we can try and follow that issue further for the benefit of these widows. When we talk of succession, it is a very painful issue, because most bread earners are the ones who die. Once they die, instead of the dependants benefiting from their sweat, they end up suffering to get this money. If we cannot praise the deceased’s good work when we are alive, then we are also condemning ourselves to the same. Therefore, the Public Trustees should be vetted. They should be people of integrity. They should be people who are ready to serve the less fortunate of this society. They should be people who are experienced and who have been vetted properly to see to it that they can be entrusted with public funds. The board members should also be vetted and be seen to be people with integrity. Finally, I would propose that these Public Trustee offices, given the limitation of the amount that should be administered, they should be devolved to the counties so that we do not keep trekking all the way across the corners of Kenya coming to Nairobi to follow a case, which will never end. My colleague from north eastern has already said how we travel up and down. If the account of a deceased has Kshs200,000 and you come to Nairobi maybe 30 times all the way from Meru or Mandera or Mombasa or Kilifi or elsewhere you will have used all that money in the process. The Bill is timely. It brings down the draconian laws of the wazungu . Let us move with the present currents. I pray and hope that once we make these amendments, the Government will move swiftly to solve the problems: to remove all these title deeds from our registries and to get that money held in banks and other places to their rightful owners or invested correctly for the future benefit of their original heirs. I support, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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