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    "id": 776274,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand guided, but it is something we say with a lot of pride that there were only two schools in Kenya when I went to school, namely, the Alliance High School and the rest. So, I am not saying in any way that all the other schools you went to are not schools, but they were among the rest. So, those of us who went to Alliance High School, PS nominee being one of them is bringing in a lot of experience. I have even seen in this Sessional Paper an allusion to Johannesburg Social Housing Company in South Africa and he comes with that experience. I am excited that with energy and young vigor, the PS nominee, Mr. Charles Hinga Mwaura, famously referred to as C. Mwangi in our younger days in school, is bringing that expertise to this country. I have seen what he has done in South Africa. It is not just on the issue of housing. Those are the issues this document speaks to. The question of land across this country, the county governments with the advent of devolved system of government, took up land that belonged to the Government, but this Sessional Paper is talking about an audit of public land. Very many county governments, State Corporations and even Ministries own land that is just on paper. Nobody has ever audited to know where the land is. A lot of that land, and I will give you the example of almost 2000 hectares in Kikuyu that is owned by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), The Kenya Trypanosomiasis Research Institute (KETRI) and other research bodies under the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) Act, is only on paper. A lot of that land lies idle. They could probably need just about 1000 hectares for research and allow the issues you see in this Sessional Paper of agro-processing and allow us to develop other alternative cities. We can have an agro-city based on that KARI land in Kikuyu. Nachu Ward in Kikuyu is being opened by the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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