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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission that prepared a report on historical injustices. All these things are captured in that Report. Why the Government has not implemented these problems is a matter that we need, as a House, to speak to. More importantly, this Petition speaks to very serious issues. It says that there are Government agencies occupying land, African Livestock Marketing Organization, which was transformed into Livestock Marketing Division, which is moribund, as far as I am concerned. We have the National Youth Service (NYS) occupying land. If you look at what is happening in these areas, you will find huge tracts of land set aside for NYS. However, it is the rich people who graze or farm on it because NYS itself has no resources to carry out farming. This is not right. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been a District Commissioner (DC) before and have seen this happen. At this day and age, when there is a serious conflict between herders and farmers, who are settled in those areas, I cannot imagine the County Government of Laikipia is gazetting a game reserve against the interests of local people who can graze on this land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Laikipia has enough game reserves and game parks. We do not need to deny people grazing rights to create room. We live in a country that is so bad that if a criminal storms into somebody’s home and kills his livestock, nothing happens. If a stray person kills a wild animal, it becomes headline news. This is not right. The issues of this land are not new to us; we know and have read about them. The land in issue is 306,000 acres that ought to benefit the Samburu people, spreading from Samburu County to Laikipia County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we went to Laikipia recently with Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud and Sen. Outa. We saw people crammed in small plots next 100,000 acres of land owned by a foreigner being held as a conservancy, and they cannot graze on that land. If you read the history of this Kirimun Village, you will find that, at Independence, the British Government settled ‘Johnnies,’ as they are commonly called, on the land of the Samburu, but they are former British soldiers. They were given titles; they live on this land, bequeath it to their children and that is land they never bought. The locals are there squatting on the periphery of this land, being shot at or arrested when they trespass, prosecuted when they trespass and their animals are confiscated and sometimes auctioned or taken away by ‘big’ people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is not the kind of country that we want. This cannot be the kind of country that we live in. We want justice for everybody. Justice for a foreign settler must be justice for a local individual. We cannot stand here and talk about Kenya being a multiracial and multiethnic, while we treat our own indigenous people as second hand citizens. When we went to Laikipia recently, we were told by the locals there that it looks like hell. The people who keep livestock must cross over to Laikipia where there is rain, water and pasture to graze. However, when they arrive there, hell breaks loose. They are told that the land belongs to Kuki Coleman, Ol Pajeta Conservancy, Solio and many other foreign settlers."
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