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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My fist comment is that I would have loved to see this Petition coming under Standing Order 44, where a governor issues a statement and it is tabled here through the Senator, but the Petition is good enough. The solutions to this problem have already been canvassed here. Sen. Sakaja and I proposed the Disaster Management Bill. It would handle the disaster that is in Elgeyo- Marakwet, Samburu and many other areas following the tragedy that was in Solai. The solutions are already available. Therefore, the Committee should not look any further because those solutions are available. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, historical injustices will not be handled in the legal regime currently in force. In the last Session, I brought a Motion on historical injustices. The law that is currently in force, under the Lands Act, has cut the hands and legs of the NLC. There is nothing much they can do, except to issue a recommendation. Again, to the Committee that you will commit this Petition, the framework that was proposed by Sen. Orengo when he was Minister for Lands, in the Land Policy of April, 2009, is the one that needs to be followed under Article 67 to give the NLC teeth like a court to issue orders that can be enforced, as opposed to what is in the law now. Now that I have seen some element of a truce between you and your colleague of the other jurisdiction in the other House, it is high time that we revisited the question of historical injustices legal framework. This is because it is available. The Constitution has given the framework, but the NLC can only issue a recommendation under current framework as it is. That recommendation was not contemplated under Article 67. Lastly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, our former colleague, Gov. Sang, has a knack for historical injustices. The Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, which he deputized, took us to visit the Talai Clan on historical injustices. I am aware that the first historical injustices case was actually filed by Nandi County. The question is: Why is the NLC unable to deal with its mandate? To the Committee that you will give this work, we know, and these colleagues here know, that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning has made sure that the NLC cannot function. They have no offices and have not been given any work to do. In fact, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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