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    "id": 1112561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fully support this Petition. This is one of the things that when brought to Parliament, you get a little ashamed because they are not coming for the first time. Whenever such issues are brought before this House, we talk about them, but nothing is done. If this was an idle problem, it would not have been addressed in the Constitution. The Chapter dealing with land talks very firmly and robustly about not only historical injustices on issues relating to land, but the need to resolve those historical injustices. Parliament was required to come up with legislation to address the historical injustices. In fact, the categorization of land between community, private and public land, part of that process was supposed to resolve the process of returning land to communities who lost land over the years. I am proud of the fact that I presided over the drafting of the National Land Policy. That policy was discussed at length both in Government circles, Cabinet and was finally brought to Parliament and passed. If you look at the Chapter on historical injustices; areas where the historical injustices arose, you will find Samburu or the Maasai Community prominently talked about in the National Land Policy. The National Land Policy should be reviewed every five to 10 years. The problem is that those who bore the brunt of colonialism when the white man came to this country, it is the communities that now look helpless that offered the most solid resistance to colonialism. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you read history, as Sen. Murkomen has urged us to do, you will learn that the history of colonial intrusion into this country are stories of resistance by our own communities."
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