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    "id": 584596,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen.(Prof.)Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just like Sen.(Prof.) Anyang'-Nyong'o, I rise to recognize the role that has been played by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. by bringing this Motion which suggests and compels the NLC to urgently prepare and bring to the Senate a Bill that addresses major historical land injustices. This is good news to Kenyans who have been waiting for such a long time for our Government - and we have never lacked a Government since 1963 - to look back and correct some of the historical land injustices that have displaced people. We have a community in Nandi called Talai. They were thrown out from their land by the colonialists. When we became an independent nation, that was the first item that was supposed to be restored, but to date, they are scattered all over. Some were displaced to Tanzania and some in Kericho. If they had historical land, who took it? If there is a new owner because there is no land which is empty, it means that the Government needs to compensate and pay the original land owner who now is floating because he or she has no documents so that they can feel that they are under the leadership of Africans and restoration of justice has come. It is not only in Nandi where this happened. In the former white islands, in Kericho, there are large tracts of land which are full of tea and the owners are different from the original ones because the real owners were chased away. Many years have elapsed, but historical injustice has not changed name, it has still remained as such. In Africa, particularly the region where I come from and those in Kericho, generations are told through stories and songs of where our land used to be and what happened to it. Every Government has to be bold enough to know how to settle those people or compensate them in the version and form that we gave IDPs from the year 2008. In West Pokot County, the entire Pokot Community was moved physically in 1912 by white men from their prime grazing land in Trans-Nzoia. Their neighbours were the Sabaot and Marakwet. The three communities were displaced, but the Sabaot decided to hide in the forest in Mt. Elgon. The colonial Government decided to take over the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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