All parliamentary appearances
Entries 721 to 730 of 1331.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that Lamu was designated as the âSixth World Heritage Siteâ and that a new port is to be developed in the area. The local people have not been dispossessed of their land and the establishment of a new port is in line with Vision 2030. That is expected to empower the locals as a result of the economic activities that will be generated by the project. (b) The Ministry has a deliberate programme for the Coast Province and Lamu in particular, whereby a land profile is being done to ...
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have a programme of issuing title deeds to the Coast next week.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, issuing block title deeds to villages is a very tedious job. Therefore, we must issue title deeds to legal identities and those villages must have directors. There is a lot that goes along with issuing title deeds to villages. However, we are in the process of issuing some block title deeds to the villages.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said that we are in the process of giving block title deeds and you can only do so when you have identified a particular village or block which has come out as a legal identity.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree that Kenya has some genuine squatters but we also have some professional squatters. It is true that we have come out with a proper list. If the Government can give us money to purchase land, we can settle the genuine squatters.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, land grabbing is like corruption. It takes two people---
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
It is corruption, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This Government is in the process of putting in place laws to curb corruption vis-a-vis land grabbing.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, grabbing of land is illegal. If it has been grabbed, I am sure it is not within our knowledge. I am, however, sure that the land has not been grabbed.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to start by correcting my hon. brother that I am not cheating. The word âcheatingâ is unparliamentary.
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5 May 2009 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not misleading the House. The truth of the matter is that this is what we are trying to do. We shall compensate the people who will be affected.
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