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    "id": 914558,
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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": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. From the onset, let me sincerely thank you for having given me an opportunity to serve a Mediation Committee. Being a first timer, it was such an illustrative learning process. I will come to that much later. Let me make it clear that, indeed, the issues concerning land use and the environment are so critical to the national development and welfare of this country. They require to be given utmost consideration and commitment in terms of drafting of legislations and regulations to manage the same. On that account, the Physical Planning Act has metamorphosed over many years. It started as the Town and Country Planning Act, then to Town Planning Act and now we have the Physical planning Act. It has changed throughout the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth and related jurisdictions. Indeed, I was shocked when we got to a point where the Senators insisted that there was nothing called physical planning. That, we were talking about land use. Mistakenly, they kept reminding us that it is supposed to put into effect Article 68 of the Constitution. Article 68 of the Constitution is clear. It calls for revision of sectoral laws in land use and related issues. Physical planning Act is one of those sectoral laws that require amendment or revision. In their mistaken belief, they thought that they were, in one swoop, effecting the provisions of Article 68 of the Constitution. I do not want to go to the technical matters. The Chairperson of the Committee and the Leaders of Majority and Minority Parties have been explicit on what we went through. I want to urge this House, for purposes of making us move and not having a lacuna in a built environment and land related issues. We approve the mediated version of the Bill. I know, from where I sit and from a technical point of view, what we have passed is not perfect. However, it is better to have something than nothing. In my any years as a student and a lecturer, I have never come across a “bunch” sorry to use the word, a bunch of so called students where you set out the principles clearly and they deliberately refuse to listen. They deliberately refuse to conceptualise and understand the issues. Going forward, this is important. There needs to be a lot of capacity building in the Senate staff to understand conceptual issues."
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