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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, despite the fact that I am saying that we should pass this Constitution the way it is, there are many areas that have glaring mistakes. For instance, issues to do with land have not been thought through seriously. In fact, if you look at headline, Chapter 5, the first thing that is talked about is the land policy. I thought a Constitution is an agreement under which we must live. The way I understand a policy is simple; company policy means, this is the action plan. If you read down from 60 to 68, you actually find it is an action plan; we have the National Land Commission. Inside the National Land Commission, there are certain mandates which we have been given. One of the mandates is that we can correct historical injustices. If you have a problem of land, you can complain to a commission and that they will look at it and give direction on what should be done. That leaves out the role of the court! One wonders what the courts will be doing. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if, really, you are to envisage what people call historical injustices, where are we going to begin? At certain times, you have said that some of us came from South Africa; sometimes you have said that others came from Sudan while others came from I do not know where in Arabia! So, really, whose country is Kenya? That leads me to the thing that I have consistently been against; the issue of Majimbo. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many of our friends will cover it and will give it the best name; they will paint it to look like gold, but we know the reality. We know the campaigns that took place before elections; those campaigns were specific, particularly in the Coast region and in the Rift Valley, where people were promised majimbo. I want to agree with some people who say that some of the activities that took place after the elections were spontaneous, because most of the people there believed that if the ODM won the elections, they were going to get free land! I do not know what we are going to do tomorrow to change that kind of thinking. That is why we are seriously against majimbo, and my brothers cannot pretend that, that is not the implication."
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