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    "id": 925222,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "were aware. Then schools and hospitals were built. These are institutions that are planned, registered and approved by Government officers. They are being built on this land and nobody looks at the legal status of the land and the people staying there. Because of that laxity, interest groups started to struggle. You started with one group of displaced people and now they go into three or four groups. I am sure when these groups were formed; they were definitely registered and assisted or advised by the then Provincial Administration. Nobody knows how all these groups, now in dispute over the land, have come into being. Again, they were registered by Government officers. Then the local registrar of lands issued title deeds to some 149 people. While this was being done, legally the land had not been alienated and had not been de-gazetted by the forest department. How does that happen? The forest officers and this officer himself were there. When titles were being given, what process was being followed? Therefore, my point is simple. Although the Committee has made a good recommendation by saying that people should be given back the land and all the processes followed, which I support, I think there is some major recommendation that has not come, together with the other two recommendations. It is important to go down in history and find out, step by step, which officers neglected their duties and made this matter go to the stage at which it has now reached. Wherever these officers are, they still hold responsibility. I am sure that at the Land Registry in Kiambu, where this matter was going on, there were officers who had underhand dealings. The records are there and they can be found. There are always land committees that should meet. All this can be found. Therefore, even as we commend the Committee for doing a good job and giving us the two recommendations for resettlement, I think it should still follow up this matter. It should go deeper and identify individuals who should take responsibility for this mess. If we correct mistakes without finding out who made the mistakes and sanction them, we will have a lot of these cases. If we take serious action on one group – like taking people to court, if necessary, or dismissing them from their jobs – people will start to work seriously and we will have less of such cases. With those remarks, I support the Report."
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