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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "and I doubt whether the Ministry is aware of the number of squatters who lead that life without any help. I was gratified to hear that some money has been set aside and an office is being set up in Garissa for adjudication purposes. As another hon. Member has said, it is important that the area be adjudicated because in so doing, developers will be attracted to the area. The Minister has mentioned that 291,370 families have been settled in about 467 settlement schemes. That is another commendable achievement. However, it is important that the Minister and his staff pay attention to the fact that within those settlement schemes, there used to be public utilities plots. We had cattle dips, dams and other utilities that have been issued with title deeds. This is being done by the Ministry and not through the back-door. That is denying the communities within the settlement schemes the use of facilities that are useful for what they do on a daily basis. One of the reasons that we have been given by the Ministry is that there are unpaid fees and the only way that the Ministry can recoup the fees is by selling off the cattle dips or the dams. If that is the case and people are doing dairy farming, it does not add up. There must be some aspect of greed and publicizing grabbing in other ways. That happens a lot in settlement schemes. We have seen it in Nyandarua. We have a settlement officer there who works very hard. She is called Rachel. If she is contacted, she has some of these details. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, the Minister has mentioned that the adjudication process is done in other places and I agree. However, it is important to do an audit in places like Nyandarua where I come from and Ndaragwa. There are schemes we have been trying to process title deeds since 1991 and to date, we have not made any progress although we have provided all the necessary documents to show that they ceased being forests. However, there is still unnecessary correspondences and moving of files within the Ministry. These are issues that are frustrating and could easily paint the Minister as a non-performer while we know he is doing all that is necessary in order for Kenyans to benefit from the services of this Ministry."
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