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    "id": 1112571,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1112571/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "It is a big shame that up to today, such communities do not have land. Their land is given to private institutions and public bodies in the Rift Valley, particularly where Laikipia is also found. Land that was previously communal is given to private entities and large-scale land owners. I know of a case in Kajiado where for two reasons, the Maa Community gave out land to create corridors for wildlife. They also donated land for public use to establish institutions, but when they demanded the land back, they were not given. That issue went to the National Assembly; it came to the Senate and went to the National Land Commission (NLC); who said that the land must go back to the Maasai Community in Kajiado. When that order was made and the matter given to the Ministry of Land to deal with, the Director of Physical Planning was instructed to reorganize that parcel of land, do a part development plan and make sure that the land goes back to the community. Instead of doing that, they partitioned the land afresh and gave it to Government institutions and private entities. The community got zero per cent of that land. We may think that some of these things would go away. In the United States of America, the native communities are still pushing the agenda of restoration of what they lost. Things have gone around and courts and the Government are acceding to some of their request. You go to New Zealand and Australia and these issues will never go away."
}