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    "id": 834456,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/834456/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 197,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mosop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Vincent Tuwei",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13436,
        "legal_name": "Vincent Kipkurui Tuwei",
        "slug": "vincent-kipkurui-tuwei"
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    "content": "The third issue of concern is the subdivision of land in Kenya. Land that is highly productive for food is now being turned into land for dwellings. If we do not check it early enough, we will have a problem on where and what is viable on land use. It is now being turned the other way round. Land for food production is being turned into real estates. The challenge in this country is planning activities on our farms, countryside as well as urban areas. If we do not plan our land, cities and municipalities, we will have a challenge in land use. We must borrow from what other developed countries did to overcome the challenge that we are going through today. The Ministry of Lands is overwhelmed by cartels, mafia, malpractices, corruption and officers who have been appointed to the National Land Commission have also become conduits of the same problem that they were entrusted to solve. That is the reason the NLC has its challenges. They are losing a lot of litigations and investigations. One wonders who has the right or power to unlock the current challenge. Regimes come and allocate land. Every successive regime tends to outdo the other by saying that the former issued land illegally. It is high time we sorted out this matter. If one has a title deed, it should be valued and considered as security. People who have been given certificates refer to them as mere paper or toilet paper. This has to stop. We must give title deeds the sanctity the Constitution and the laws provide."
}