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    "id": 814290,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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        "legal_name": "Mugambi Murwithania Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, let me congratulate the committee for this piece of legislation that they are trying to bring forward. It is quite an improvement from the existing Act of 2012. We all know that the Government intends to do a lot of economic activities, lawns, railways, some parts of the sea line, some parts of the intelligence hardware that the Government is putting up and a lot of dams. The Government is trying to put up a lot of infrastructure particularly on security and therefore, some instances call for compulsory acquisition of land. This Bill sets to put a clear guideline as to how the Government is going to operate in the process of acquiring land compulsorily. I totally agree with some of the recommendations, but I have some reservations. One of the reservations is who is going to be compensated. We know some lands are owned by absent landlords and some people have invaded their land. They have been on the land for more than 12 years as the Bill is proposing. When it comes to compensation, who is going to be compensated? Is it the original owner or the people who occupy that land? It is something that we wish to look at because there will be those kinds of cases, particularly in the so-called absent land owners’ areas. They have the titles, but they are not the ones occupying the land. Other people are occupying the land. 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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