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    "id": 814228,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Acquisition Tribunal. How that tribunal is composed, term of office of the members, functions and jurisdiction are well-documented in that section. Clause 19 proposes to reduce the number of days after which the commission is supposed to make its decision following an application for the creation of a public right of way from 90 days to 30 days. The whole timeline in terms of the time required to pay for this land or substitute the other land takes place within 30 days from 90 days. I, therefore, wish to request the Members to support this Bill in order for us to create a legal framework that will facilitate the actualisation of our country’s development strategy relating to public infrastructure. This enables the reestablishment of Kenya as a jurisdiction of choice for investment, the improvement of ease of doing business in Kenya through the regulation of the long and protracted process of compulsory acquisition and standardisation of compensation. It will eliminate the huge variance when it comes to what we pay in terms of land rate, land rent and stamp duty. In the 11th Parliament, the Departmental Committee on Lands looked at this. Amendments were proposed and this Bill went to the Senate where it lapsed. There are five Bills which lapsed in the Senate in the last Parliament. We have sent the Senate the same five Bills, namely, the Energy Bill, the Petroleum Bill, the Kenya Roads Bill and the Physical Planning Bill and I hope this time round, they will not keep them for another four years until they lapse. I hope they will do their duty in terms of legislation. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands conducted public participation and got the records of the previous Departmental Committee on Lands in the 11th Parliament, which was chaired by Hon. Alex Mwiru. It listened to stakeholders; both Government and private. I am sure she will share with the House the views of the stakeholders. I ask Hon. Rachael Nyamai to give the side of the stakeholders. I beg to move and ask her to second."
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