15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are persons of interest in this matter. First is the NLC. The NLC insisted that the schools were on private land. They declared the surrender process and letters of allotment null and void and allowed that process of compulsory acquisition to proceed.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are persons of interest in this matter. First is the NLC. The NLC insisted that the schools were on private land. They declared the surrender process and letters of allotment null and void and allowed that process of compulsory acquisition to proceed.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Yesterday, we were having a debate when going through the Land Value Index Bill. We are saying that NLC is the gatekeeper and body that is constitutionally empowered to advise national and county governments on matters to do with land. The NLC sat without having a plenary, without producing any minutes and proceeded to say that the letter of allotment that was issued by the Commissioner of Lands in 1999 was an illegality. They went ahead and ignored all the other correspondences that were brought before us by the Ministry of Lands, Ministry of Education and the Governor of Nairobi ...
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Yesterday, we were having a debate when going through the Land Value Index Bill. We are saying that NLC is the gatekeeper and body that is constitutionally empowered to advise national and county governments on matters to do with land. The NLC sat without having a plenary, without producing any minutes and proceeded to say that the letter of allotment that was issued by the Commissioner of Lands in 1999 was an illegality. They went ahead and ignored all the other correspondences that were brought before us by the Ministry of Lands, Ministry of Education and the Governor of Nairobi ...
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Therefore, NLC bears the greatest responsibility in this matter because they are the experts in matters to do with land. By confirming and taking the side of the developers that this was private land, they allowed the subsequent actions that led to the illegality that we are talking about.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Therefore, NLC bears the greatest responsibility in this matter because they are the experts in matters to do with land. By confirming and taking the side of the developers that this was private land, they allowed the subsequent actions that led to the illegality that we are talking about.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Secondly, the NLC anticipated the compensation claim. In this House, we have a rule that we shall not anticipate debate. How then do you explain that the NLC received on 29th August, 2016 a claim by Afrison Import Exports Limited indicating that they needed to be compensated for historical injustices and, on the same day, the NLC wrote to the Ministry of Education indicating that they had already conducted an inspection and advised Ministry of Education to make arrangements for compensation? Even If one wants to defraud the Government, they need to be cleverer than that.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Secondly, the NLC anticipated the compensation claim. In this House, we have a rule that we shall not anticipate debate. How then do you explain that the NLC received on 29th August, 2016 a claim by Afrison Import Exports Limited indicating that they needed to be compensated for historical injustices and, on the same day, the NLC wrote to the Ministry of Education indicating that they had already conducted an inspection and advised Ministry of Education to make arrangements for compensation? Even If one wants to defraud the Government, they need to be cleverer than that.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thirdly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the NLC unilaterally and arbitrarily decided the acreage to be acquired. In a letter, they set the acreage at 13.5364 acres and also established the cost at Kshs3.269 billion. They established the acreage and the cost even before gazetting the intention to acquire the land.
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15 Nov 2018 in Senate:
Thirdly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the NLC unilaterally and arbitrarily decided the acreage to be acquired. In a letter, they set the acreage at 13.5364 acres and also established the cost at Kshs3.269 billion. They established the acreage and the cost even before gazetting the intention to acquire the land.
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