James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3941 to 3950 of 4273.

• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I want to congratulate all the hon. Members who have spoken on this Motion. I can assure you that my team from the Ministry of Lands is here and taking notes to ensure that the contributions that have been made are going to be used, particularly when we prepare legislation. As I said at the beginning, the land policy is not cast in stone and is not legislation. It is gives a broad view and vision for the way forward. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, since I did not do it in the beginning, I also want to thank the people who have worked with me in the Ministry; they are here and include the Permanent Secretary and the various heads of departments. I thank them for work well done. Thanks also go to all those stakeholders who have taken part in this process. Hon. Otichilo has been with this for a long time. He has contributed immensely to this document that you see today. I also want to thank the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Lands and Natural ... view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister has been around quite a lot from yesterday, but I think he gave up and went away view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was following the proceedings of the House as I was running down from another meeting. Now the problem is that the Order Paper was not posted on the internet up to last night; up to this morning, there was nothing on the internet. The Order Paper was brought to my office at 9.00 a.m. That was when I was learning that this Question by Private Notice was coming up. I have rushed from another meeting to get to Parliament. Secondly, Mr. Mbugua was not available the last time when I was ready to answer this ... view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: (a) The identification of land to settle the internally displaced persons during the 2007 post election violence is in the process. In September, 2009, as outlined in the attached schedule which I have given to the hon. Member, several parcels of land were offered for sale to the Government either through the Provincial Administration or pursuant to notices published by the Ministry of Lands inviting expression of interest to sell land for that purpose. The parcels of land offered vary in size and locality and are mainly from the Rift Valley, Central, Coast, Eastern and Nyanza provinces. The Ministry conducted ... view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there has not been any in-fighting. Indeed, we found out that the Ministry of Lands alone could not take care of the exercise. That is why four Ministries are involved. The Office of the Attorney-General is involved in looking at the agreements and making sure that the Government will not be shortchanged in any way in those transactions. view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, hence the need for a new land policy. If you would approve my land policy, you would put me in a stronger position. However, you are making a very good point; that there are people who have been sitting on Government land and they are now offering the same land for sale. You will find that in most of those circumstances, they have not done anything on those pieces of land. The process of due diligence was also to establish that. If one wanted to sell land that was originally Government land, we wanted to find ... view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware that people have been re- settled. If they have been re-settled then they are squatting and basically, the situation is quite different. If they are re-settled without legal instruments then, as far as I am concerned, that is not the programme that is underway. The programme that is underway is that they should have title deeds to the land they are re-settled. view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view