James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4121 to 4130 of 4273.

• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is a different Question but we have taken steps to ensure that allocation of land is streamlined and title deeds are streamlined and that no single officer in the view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4224 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January 20, 2009 view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Ministry makes a decision to allocate land. There must be justification for every allocation of land. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: However, what is worrying is the issue of land transactions, be they transfers that have been executed, double registrations or allocations of land. We can control that in a firm manner once we modernise and computerise our land information systems and land transactions so that we do not depend on manual records. That has been the source of most of the fraudulent transactions that have taken place in the Ministry of Lands. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: We have also been carrying out audit in many of the registries. We have identified the registries where there have been a lot of problems including Eldoret and Mombasa. Where necessary, we have brought in new staff to manage those land registries. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is difficult to talk about timeframes because some of these matters are in court and it is very difficult for me to interfere. Some of these land cases have been in court for the last five years. I hope that, by the time we discuss the land policy, if it goes through Cabinet, we will have the political basis and will for trying to recover a lot of this public land and put in place a modern land information system that will ensure that these malpractices are stopped. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the Ndung'u Report, some of the legal entities which actually participated in land grabbing, and I have no fear in saying this, are the churches. The hon. Member is quite right because, after getting the land, some of these churches would allocate it to individuals within the church. Even in circumstances where churches are involved, if the land was not available for alienation, I am revoking those title deeds. If that can stop me from going to Heaven, I am prepared to take that risk! view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, a lot has been achieved during the time that I have been in office, particularly the revocation and surrender of title deeds. Some of the persons who thought that we would repossess their land elected to surrender some of those title deeds well in advance. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I think 80 per cent of the title deeds that I have talked about have been recovered during my tenure, including the land in Changamwe where the water works were located and had been grabbed. I had to cancel the title deed and issue a new one. I have also recovered land belonging to KARI in Limuru and elsewhere. There is land in Eldoret belonging to the courts and Judiciary, the Lands Office, the Railways and we have cancelled all those title deeds in the last one year. view
• 20 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am quite happy to do that and I will lay this document on the Table. You will notice that a lot of land grabbers do not use their names. They use companies which Ja nuary 20, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view