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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, Standing Order No. 225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any petition other than those presented through a Member. I wish to convey to the House that my office has received a petition submitted by one Mr. Peter Kairang’a, P.O. Box 7183 Nakuru, calling for the settlement of over 25,000 shareholders of Ngwataniro Mutukanio Company in what the Petition asserts is their rightfully owned parcels of land in Nakuru and Laikipia. The petitioners have stated that the Ngwataniro Mutukanio Company raised money from its shareholders with the objective of investing the funds in buying land for settlement. The company, according to the petitioner, owns a total of 82,000 acres in Nakuru and Laikipia counties as well as the Amigos House, Oyster Shell Building, three plots in Nakuru Town, farm houses in Bahati, and various buildings in Laikipia and Rumuruti among other properties. Hon. Members, the balloting of land is said to have been undertaken in 1983 in a bid to ensure that each shareholder got a piece of the company’s land, an initiative that was extremely flawed and as a result, over 25,000 shareholders did not obtain any land. Further, in certain areas balloting was done on unsurveyed land and several companies’ properties including Amigos House, Oyster Shell Building and other properties were grabbed or illegally sold without the consent of the shareholders, under the direction of company directors and the provincial administration. Hon. Members, it is on account of these misgivings that the petitioner seeks the intervention of this House, primarily in spearheading investigations in the affairs of Mutukanio Ngwataniro Company in view of attaining the recovery of the irregularly allocated plots of land and other lost properties and conduct of a fresh survey of the Mutukanio Ngwataniro Land. Hon. Members, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 227, this Petition therefore stands committed to the Departmental Committee on Lands. The Committee is requested to consider the Petition and report its findings to the House and the petitioner in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order 227(2). I thank you. Before I allow comments, there is a Petition by the Member of Embakasi East, Hon. Ongili. Proceed."
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