James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3671 to 3680 of 4273.

• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that first point is very important. In fact, I did a memo long before the hon. Member even thought of asking this Question. The memo said that we should look for land in areas that will enable the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) settle in a harmonious way and where there will be no conflict in terms of communities that are not ready to accommodate each other. That is not something that I am just talking about. I wrote about it sometime ago and I hope that we will adhere to what the hon. Member has raised in ... view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Ethuro knows what a point of order is. That was, certainly, not a point of order. But be that as it may, I said that the two persons on whom the executive authority of this Republic rests had already given directions that funds be made available in addition to my own commitment. However, the commitment of the Government, which is superior to my commitment, is there. I can assure you that it is not something that I am talking about but it is something which is there in black and white. So, there is Government commitment. view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the only assurance I can give is that there will be no IDPs arising from 2007/2008 post election violence who will be settled in Taita. However, if there are other displaced persons in a different context, even from within Taveta – because there are displaced people in Taveta who have no land and they are poor – those categories of IDPs will be settled all over the country, including in Taveta. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to assure this House, while I am on my feet, that I will be the last person to play politics ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had already answered this Question, but Mr. Yakub needed time to interrogate the annexure which I had handed over to him. The record is there that I answered the Question. view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is possible although it will be a very long and tenuous process. However, I can assure the hon. Member that if that is required, we will be able to do it. There can be no title issued without the process of allocation. The only difference is that the affected plots are not necessarily plots which were given out on the basis of PDPs as understood in law. They were main settlement schemes which were planned as such. The names you see in that list belong to people who were settled in settlement schemes quite a number ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with the hon. Member that all the schemes that were there previously were for settlement of upcountry people. That is the stark reality of this matter. In fact, if you look at the list of those people who were settled there, you can hardly see any names of people from the Coast region or generally from Lamu. We now have an ongoing project in which we are identifying villages and pieces of land to ensure that the local people in Lamu County not only get their land back but also get title deeds ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: many of them said that they would rather have a title deed in the name of the community, which is now going to be possible in terms of the current Constitution. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to add that in the year 2010, I placed an embargo on land transactions in Lamu County, because it was quite clear to me that many people were being given land in Lamu because the whole district is Government land. I realised that there were lots of people who were getting land in Lamu for speculation purposes. Some of them have ranches which ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to announce to the gracious lady that what I was talking about were not any IDPs other than those relating to the post-election violence of 2007/2008. That is what is in the Question. What she is asking is a different Question, and it is precisely because of what she has said that I stopped all land transactions in Lamu County. The exercise that is going on is that anybody who can be able to show an interest or right over any piece of land on any legitimate basis, is entitled to get land in Lamu ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at this list, you will appreciate that most of the titles were issued from the year 2006. This followed the elections that led to National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) ascending to power; when the President of the Republic of Kenya went to Lamu County and gave the directive that those people who had been allocated land in those settlement schemes be given title deeds without any charge except for a few nominal charges. So, if you look at the list, you will see that nearly 90 per cent of them were given titles in the ... view
• 22 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Although these people were required to pay some money, on the basis of the Presidential directive, other than those individuals who did not present themselves to the Lands Office to collect their titles, the rest were issued with title deeds. You can see from the list that there were those very few persons who went to the Lands Office after the years 2007/2008 to get their titles. This is because when they were required to present themselves to the Land Registry to get their titles, they never did in the year 2006. So, it is an ongoing exercise. There are ... view