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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "resettlement of IDPs is because of your low absorption capacity? In the Supplementary Estimates, you were to be given Kshs2 million which you could not use because you had not used the previous Kshs1 million. We will be interrogating that at the Committee Stage. Is the Minister looking at areas like Turkana where we have about 10,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and where we have been able to give land because we have no issues of land like the rest of Kenya? Can the Minister compensate those areas? These people are ready. The programme is there and your Ministry can come and intervene. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, right now in Kitale, with regard to the Agricultural Development Corporation (ADC) farms, your officers are taking people who were supposed to have been allocated five acres of land round. That land is being given to people who have money to bribe their way. The squatters of this country, including the people allocated that land from Turkana, are being taken in circles. This has happened for over a period of ten years. As we encourage the Minister to go on, there is the issue of title deeds in northern Kenya and other arid lands. I had the occasion to bring a question here asking the number of title deeds in Turkana. The Minister could not give me an appropriate answer. The people said that there were no title deeds when I know there are three of them owned by foreigners. The fact that a Minister and a Ministry cannot even determine the number of titles in a particular area speaks volumes about lack of ability to have a proper register. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if there is one thing the Minister should do and I think he has already started the process, is to make sure that each of these titles is registered. They should know who is having them and we like it when he stops those who are grabbing land that was initially public land. On that, Minister, we applaud you. However, we want you to go out of the city. We want you to go to the landless in Mombasa. The programme of issuing titles that was started by the previous Governments has stopped. Issuance of titles should not be an issue of political largesse for political convenience. It is a right of Kenyans who deserve titles. They must be given title deeds. I would like to encourage the Minister to follow that route and make sure that titles are given even where there are no political referenda or general elections because it is a right for Kenyans to be settled and to be given titles. Finally, I have an urban municipality called Lodwar Municipality which the Minister admits is completely challenged by urban physical planning because it is still chaotic. I cannot agree more. Move with speed; we do not want those chaos especially in our urban areas. There must be proper planning and enforcement of those laws. For a Minister to come before this House to say that because it is chaotic there is lack of coordination, where will we go to when Ministers are crying like the rest of us? Ministers must enforce and maintain order, building codes and ensure that the by-laws are implemented. We are looking upon the Government to ensure that all these things are done. With those remarks, I support."
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