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    "id": 814366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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        "legal_name": "Hassan Oda Hulufo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak to this proposed amendment. As Members who have contributed have indicated, land is a very key factor of production is our country. We derive most of the things that we require from land. We have the Big Four Agenda which is meant to transform our economy. All the mega projects under the four key pillars of the four-point agenda require land. Most of the land as we speak today especially in the places which are appropriate for these big investments are owned either individually or collectively. The amendments have clearly indicated that acquisition of public land should not be compensated. I fully agree with that unless a public entity has made investment for which they need to be compensated. I have looked at the proposed amendments and also the two existing land laws - the Land Act and also Land Registration Act which the various proposed amendments are supposed to improve. This is a very good practice because these laws, especially the Land Act, were passed in 2012. Having implemented them, we have discovered that there are clauses which were not sufficient enough to enable particularly the Government to acquire land it requires for development in an easy way without undermining the rights of the owners. Compulsory acquisition of land requires that those who are giving up their land are compensated in a timely manner and also adequately. The proposed amendments do that. With these proposed amendments, I am sure we will be able to have a very systematic way of 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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