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    "id": 851051,
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    "speaker_name": "en. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mara Serena Safari Lodge in Narok and built a house worth Kshs20 million. However, he is now being told that he will be compensated within 12 months. Where is he expected to live? He has raised his children to live and expect certain things which he should rightfully provide for them. However, all of a sudden, their lives have changed. Madam Temporary Speaker, therefore, we need to think about the future generations. Any law that we draft and amend, we must do so knowing that we are bequeathing everything to the future generation. It should not only take care of our own immediate interests. I love development and I have no problem with it. However, let us develop while informing the public why it is important to acquire the land. Madam Temporary Speaker, I am concerned about the delays. I sit in the Committee on Energy and in most cases, this country is losing a lot of money particularly on the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project because of issues of compensation. Today, I spoke to a young lady who also raised concerns that she has been told that they will be compensated. However, it is funny that every time the valuation of the land is done, the value never goes up, it keeps going down. Who will protect the land owners? People in Kajiado and Narok are still waiting to be compensated for the SGR land. The people in Turkana have caused the entire public to lose over a billion shilling a month because of the Kenya Electricity Transmission Company Limited (KETRACO) line 5 which is not completed. However, we can only bring the balance if we consult widely, engage the people and show them the need as to why we must compulsorily acquire their land but also promptly and immediately pay them. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at Clause 6, it requires that the Land Act be amended by insertion of a new Section 107A to No.6 of 2012 on criteria for assessing value for compulsorily acquired freehold land. One of the things that concerns me the most is that when you read the Clause it says that the following issues will not be taken into consideration, one, in the event a person has acquired land and made some improvements in it, it should be made within two years prior to the date of publication in the gazette of the notice of the intention to acquire the land unless it is proved that the improvement was not made bona fide and not in contemplation of proceedings for the acquisition of the land. When I buy land, the value does not remain the same because I may improve it. It is wrong to state that the improvement cannot be considered within two years. We should encourage people to buy land and hope that the value will go up. If they choose to sell it and go somewhere else, they should not be punished for that."
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