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    "content": "When we are talking about land in this country, we are talking about historical injustices. It is those historical injustices that have led to the problems we have in Mau today. When the colonialists came, they displaced many people. One of the most targeted areas was Central Province. Very many people were displaced and taken to where they did not belong. Most of those people ended up in the Rift Valley. After Independence, when the colonial farmers went back to their country, the leaders at that time; that is the President and his people continued with the same problem. They acquired other people’s land, the people who fought for land could not get back their land, very many Kenyans became landless and we ended up with some people being pushed to some places. Those people displaced others who ended up in the forests, thus creating problems that were really not theirs. These are some of the problems that have led many people to curse one another that they do not attend to the so called “Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs)” who have been evicted or come out of the forest. That was because of the powerful people, the powerful colonial Government, the imperial presidency who would acquire land and allocate it to the people who supported them or who would sing their song. That is the kind of presidency that we must put a stop to. That is part of the reforms that we have to undertake in this country. We should make sure that we shall not have another president who will go to a place and say: “This plot belongs to me, this belongs to my friend and this belongs to So and So, who is a Permanent Secretary.” I would like to remind the Minister as we debate this Sessional Paper that we do not have title deeds for Kibigori Settlement Scheme. When will we get those documents? While we support the Minister, I would like to remind him about that matter."
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