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    "id": 964953,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Makau King'ola",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I support the annulment of these regulations. When I listened to the Leader of the Majority Party articulate the mandate of the Committee, I felt that he really understands the whole gist of the matter. The rider of these Land Registration (Electronic Land Transactions) Regulations is public participation. One of the key stakeholders in this area is the National Land Commission (NLC). I learnt that it was not consulted. Article 67 of the Constitution articulates the functions of the NLC. If you do not involve them, it is serious ignorance. Sixty per cent of the land in Kenya is not surveyed. If the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning introduces electronic land transactions, this would be a mega fraud. I cannot wait for the BBI Report to come here, so that CSs can come from this House. Some of these CSs do not understand the needs and likes of Kenyans. If the CS for the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning represents people like me; he/she can understand that 60 per cent of land in Kenya is not registered. If you introduce Kenyans to electronic land registration and transactions, you will punish them. They will be in a vulnerable position. I am an expert in land matters. I can tell you for free that if these regulations are approved, we will have mega fraud in land. You will have your parcel of land somewhere in Mombasa and you hear that it was registered electronically and charged. By the time you go to court, you will never know what happened to your land. When the Committee on Delegated Legislation comes up with such recommendations, I agree with them. They dug into pregnant issues. The Government is also a major stakeholder in land registration in this country. If The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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