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    "id": 814286,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiminini, Ford-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Chrisantus Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Shamalla has worsened it. She is saying the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. I do not know whether she is in Budalangi or on the Floor of the House. When you are here, we must pay attention to details. She even misled this House by saying the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. We have no business with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. We are talking about the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Lands, Hon. Rachael Nyamai. If you go to the memoranda, the principles of report writing are basic and I expect Hon. (Ms.) Shamalla, as a lawyer, to know this. It must be in the Report. It is not noted in the Report. How will we know that there was public participation yet the land valuers are very critical? Accept this criticism for improvement in future. If you take criticism negatively… That is why this is a House of debate. When this is a House of debate, you say something that will add value and if you want to learn, you must accept that you are ignorant. This was said by one of the top philosophers. As we move on, land is a very critical issue. In terms of the index, the basic principle of coming up with an index is that you must have a base. The challenge is that it must be stratified. The valuation of land, let us say in Mombasa, is different from the one in Nairobi, Kitale and Nyeri. That categorisation or stratification is key. Economists are very good in doing this. We have seen this in inflation index so that you put a factor as the years progress. Land appreciation in Nairobi is not the same as land appreciation in Makueni. Those factors must be put into consideration so that when it comes to acquisition of land and we have a base rate, the factors of appreciation are totally different. The Nairobi one is different from the one of Mombasa and the one of Kitale. Land valuation is totally different and the level of appreciation is equally different. You cannot say it is uniform across the country. Otherwise, they have done a good job and there is always room for improvement. Next time if you do that, I will say hallelujah. You have done a good job."
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