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    "id": 1112585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "which is that they come here thinking that land belongs to nobody. Those of us living on those parcels of lands did not have any rights and the White men who came first determine the owners. That is how they allocated themselves large tracts of land and pastoralists are being displaced. The Petition is clear on the effort the community has done in addressing this issue as the Senator has enumerated, what they have done in approaching the national Government leaders in the previous Governments, talking to Laikipia County Council, visiting the then Vice President, Hon. Moody Awori. The most important thing is that once these leases of those conservancies or ranches expired, the Government did not see it fit to return it to the original communities, knowing very well that those are the people whose livelihoods depended on that land. For those who have the facts in history, I am not a historian, but I read somewhere that the departing point between President Jomo Kenyatta and Oginga Odinga, the Vice President was the policies they had. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga had the policy of restoring the land to Africans, which the President by then, Jomo Kenyatta, did not embrace, and that is one of their departure points. The colonialist had grabbed African land and the question was what happens to the Africans who had been displaced from their lands after their departure. The best way would have been to restore it back to them. Unfortunately, the first Government did not see it fit and that is why we are still struggling and having these problems. The first prayer of the Petitioners is that the National Land Commission (NLC) should restore all land in Kirimun Sub Location to the designated Samburu community. That prayer is important. Community land registration is currently going on and these are the lands that can be registered as a block by these communities. When they do that, they will continue with their way of life; pastoralism, which requires the community to own the land. That can only be done through the community land registration. I urge the Committee to look at this matter in that direction. The second prayer was on compensation. I do not know if this community has benefited from the historical land injustices claims, which were done at the NLC. The deadline of those claims was 21st September, 2021. The Senator should look into that. He"
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