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    "id": 1132187,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1132187/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "My comment relates to the fact that this illegal action is taking place and people are being shot dead. Last week, I buried one officer from the police unit. He was my constituent. He was shot in Laikipia as a result of insecurity. Insecurity must be brought to an end. It is born out of the quest for land and grazing rights. Before the colonialists came and turned that area into highlands and subsequently left it for a selected few, it was grazing land for the Maasais and other pastoralists. No person who wishes to live in harmony with his neighbours should cause such harm to others. Not long ago, a rancher shot a so-called “trespasser” whom he said was poaching. That kind of attitude is neo-colonialism in a different way. Nowadays most of the land owners in Laikipia are still the elites, the neo-colonialists. They may not be white. Many of them are Kenyan natives, whom we call “black from outside” but “white from inside”. They must now start to realise that those thousands of acres that they have is Kenyan land. The decision to re-establish order in Laikipia is necessary. In India, where my great grandfather came from, nobody is allowed to own more than 100 acres or 200 acres of land, be it the Prime Minister, the President or whoever. In this country individuals own tens, hundreds and thousands of acres of land yet the communities that are already there have been marginalised and tortured, and their livestock have been killed. As a result of all these injustices, they are now foreigners on their own land. I speak for the Maasai as an adopted member of that community."
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