Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 301 to 310 of 1042.

• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to second the Motion that the Bill be read the Third Time. The country is on its way towards getting a legal aid service scheme that will enable people who are indigent or poor to have legal aid services. This is a day that has been long in coming. I support this law and the legislative process. I also support the many amendments that have helped clarify and clean up the law and take it to the Executive as an implementation step thereafter. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am happy to contribute to the Community Land Bill. I am happy because I have been given the opportunity to contribute after the Legal Aid Bill. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Mine is really to thank the House because we have come to a position where the National Assembly is considering the Community Land Bill. It has been a law long incoming in this country. We have waited for many days. There has been a lot of deliberation on the subject until it was elevated to a constitutional matter. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: When we were writing the Constitution, 2010, there were many questions on land. Many questions on land have been asked since Independence. We may not have all the answers on questions on land but increasingly, the country has acknowledged that matters of land are difficult. There are matters we have to answer one after the other. There are matters that we have to consider as democracy deepens and as our country grows. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Land is a very important resource in our country. It determines who is poor, who is a supplier, who is a provider and who is going to be economically engaged in our country. During the discussions on this Bill, issues of adjudication of land came to the Floor. It is important for the country to continue to adjudicate parcels of land. Any person in this country who owns land should get a title for it, be it ancestral land, community land or whatever form of land. There ought to be a title that supports land ownership. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In these days of investment in land, I will bring an amendment to the Land Registration Act so that any person seeking to register land in their name should disclose how they bought that land. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you acquire land by buying it, it would be important to declare the sources of funding. There are many questions of land that are yet to be answered but today the country and House gets to answer the question on community land through the Bill that we are discussing. view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: There is a question of county governments being allowed by the Bill to own land on behalf of persons in their counties. A lot of trust is going to be put on county governments and politicians. It is important to point out that our history is not rosy. It is one of those in leadership taking land that belongs to the masses and appropriating it for himself or herself. We have a history in this country where community land has been identified as free or idle land awaiting a land grabber or a leader to go and identify it . ... view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: As we go on with the Community Land Bill, the trust that has been put in county governments is a new thinking by the country that county governments are elected. Our governors are elected in trust and they are going to hold land in trust for the persons who live in their counties. It is a very heavy and onerous duty. As we consider this Bill, we will be looking at the penalties that are going to be put in law for infringement of trust like what is going to be given to the county governments. The history of the ... view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: While working at Kituo cha Sheria, where we represented poor people, including slum dwellers who were sometimes at the risk of being evicted, we held the view that instead of getting a title for land measuring 0.1 acres – sometimes of even 0.001acreage – it would be better in the interest of economics moving the country forward, in an area as productive and as rich as Kibra, that people get a community land title. When they get a community land title, they are able to develop that land collectively. In this law, we will be willing to move an amendment ... view
• 3 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I knew of a university student from Kibra who would carry his certificates in his bag every day. He would carry the little possession he had in life in a bag and walk around with it in the City, because it was not known when an eviction would be done by the people who own the land. The answer we thought would be applicable then was to allow communities to get land titles under the Community Land Bill. We will be looking to see whether the Community Land Bill, as drafted now, will allow communities like those ... view