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    "id": 771164,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kioni",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Land remains and will remain one of the key factors in our economic growth. By and large, we have to make sure that we address its use. This Bill does exactly that. The fact that it helps us to have institutions both at the national and the local level, and it creates how they are going to work together in terms of linkages, makes it possible for me to urge colleagues to support the Bill and make it become an Act as soon as possible. Also, the fact that it has penalties for those who will flout it just for whatever reason, the fact that you will suffer some penalty, is also a very useful inclusion in the Bill. Colleagues who have spoken before me have talked about the difficulties that we have in this country, especially in urban areas, when we have disasters. Because of lack of planning, you cannot even rescue lives. Lives are lost just because there was no planning or if there was some form of planning, there was no care to ensure that the planning was adhered to and those who did not adhere to it suffer penalties. So, it is important that we support this Bill and ensure that those 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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