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    "id": 815654,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "Of course, it is also a progressive action to set up the Land Acquisition Tribunal, but the composition of that tribunal seems also to be skewed to the same people who have been involved in malpractices in the Government cycle. Obviously, we will have to seek either a complete review or an expansion of the Land Acquisition Tribunal. Many of the people who suffer are the ordinary squatters and land owners who end up suffering for many years to come. I also feel the one-year period provided to pay full compensation and even to contemplate paying compensation in instalments is generally to deprive the owner of the land. The basis of the acquisition is to leave the land owner whose land is being taken in a similar or not worse position than you found him. Holding on to payment for one year is not good. By the time that person seeks purchase of land elsewhere, chances are that the land value will have doubled or even tripled. As is the practice, you should never displace somebody and take him far away from his natural environment or the environment he has been used to because land acquisition for public purposes should not punish a typical land owner, peasant or trader. Definitely, we must put a provision that one year is too long. We should seek a shorter provision. I do not believe, unless in emergency cases, that a State corporation or organ will wake up all of a sudden and decide it must acquire land. It must have been budgeted and planned for adequately. So, before the Government or the NLC accepts to commence land acquisition process, adequate funds should have been put aside to allow for compensation. There are basic tools of budgeting. It should not be a problem for any typical State organ to budget. I support the proposed Bill but at the appropriate time, I will move necessary amendments to align it to the Constitution, other laws and best practices in the profession and safeguard the welfare of land owners. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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