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    "id": 1008463,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, it was not out of idle duty that the drafters of our Constitution included many of the Chapter 15 Commissions. Part of the Commissions included therein includes the NLC whom among many other duties they are supposed to take, is ensure the right of ownership and address some of the historical issues that Governor Sang and many of us who have been in this campaign have tried to seek NLC to give us a final solution to this issue. It is unfortunate that 10 years after the passage of the Constitution we have not answered the land question. However, many of the people we represent here were dispossessed of their lands taken away by colonial masters back in the day. On many platforms, citizens of this country were promised that upon the passage of the new Constitution all the injustices that were meted upon them were going to be addressed. It is the duty of this House to ensure with finality and good reason, that our people feel justice has been done and done properly to them. I believe the Committee will also address itself to the second point raised by Governor on what happens to the citizens of the country that were dispossessed out of very good and fertile land that right now they could be making good use of it. It was taken away by the multinationals and well- connected families back in those days. Our people were settled on rocky places where it is difficult for them to eke out a living under those circumstances. Like he has pointed out, many of them have been put on the cliffs and edges of mountains where you wonder what will have driven people to live there. Nevertheless, they had no choice because back in the day when the colonial masters say that it is where you stay, you have to reside there. Yet successive governments have not given them a solution. It is my proposal to this Committee that they will invite the newly installed NLC, all the commissioners together with the Chairperson. Let us give us a far-reaching proposal so that we understand. If you read our Constitution under Article 60 on the Principles of Land Policy; equitable distribution of land is one of the values that we espouse as citizens of this country. We hope that one-time NLC shall respond to the question and answer it with finality so that these kinds of disparities and petitions do not find their way in this House. Our citizens want to see justice done to them. When this Committee reports to this House, I am looking forward to see what proposals will have come from the NLC and other Government agencies that they will invite to share their concerns with them."
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