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    "id": 970920,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, Standing Order 225(2)(b) requires the Speaker to report to the House any petition other than those presented through a Member. I, therefore, wish to convey to the House that my office has received a petition submitted by one Mr. Peter Kairang’a of P.O. Box 7183, Nakuru, calling for the settlement of over 25,000 shareholders of Gwataniro Mutukanio Company, in what the petitioner asserts is their rightfully-owned parcels of land in Nakuru and Laikipia. The petitioner avers that Mutukanio Gwataniro Company raised money from its shareholders with the objective of investing the funds in buying land for them to settle on. The company, according to the petitioner, owns a total of 82,000 acres in Nakuru and Laikipia, as well as the Amigos House, Oyster Shell building and three plots in Nakuru Town, farm houses in Bahati, various buildings in Laikipia and Rumuruti, among other properties. 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, but the initiative was extremely flawed and as a result over 25,000 shareholders did not obtain any land. Further, in areas such as Malan-Ngarua, balloting was done on non-surveyed land, and several company properties including Amigos House, Oyster Shell were grabbed or illegally sold without the consent of the shareholders under the direction of company directors and the then provincial administration. It is on account of these misgivings that the petitioner seeks the intervention of this House primarily in spearheading investigations into the affairs of Mutukanio Gwataniro Company with a view to attaining recovery of the irregularly allocated plots of land and other lost properties and restoring them to the rightful owners, and for the conduct of a fresh survey of the Mutukanio Gwataniro land. 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 to the petitioner in accordance with Standing Order 227(2). 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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