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    "content": "stupid! It is forty-plus years of Independence. We have gone to school and we have taken our children to school, we are saying; if you bring a policy like this, give the political will to make it happen. If the political will is there, we would have had today a full Cabinet sitting here supporting this Minister because we have always said that the biggest problem in this country is the injustice of land. But when we see this House the way it is, we continue to say; you speak about reforms and you cannot spell it. For the women and the young people of this country, we are losing hope on you men and, we are losing hope in leadership in this country because this land continues to marginalize us, we farm it every day on our knees, we feed you with it every day, but at the end of the day, you victimize us with it. That is why I like that you have put in this policy how you are going to protect women, the young and people with disabilities. But is it going to be enforceable? Is the Minister going to put up a law that is enforceable? For me, that is the last question that I would like to ask. Lastly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as many other colleagues of mine have said, the conflict that is arising because of land is a time bomb. We have just come through a Post-Election Violence (PEV) that people are all attributing to flawed elections. It could have been the trigger, but it certainly was not the real reason. It triggered, but the real reason why the Rift Valley exploded was the issue of land. Mr. Minister, I now want to give you free advice, your Ministry and the Cabinet. Please, take this message to the Cabinet because I have never been heard in that Cabinet. The Coast Province is a time bomb waiting to happen. If you do not solve the problem of land in the Coast Province by 2012, do not call elections in this country. It is a free advice I am giving you. If you do not solve the land problem of squatters in the Coast Province; and it can be solved within that Cabinet, because sitting in that Cabinet is the problem of the Coast Province, do not call for elections because we do not want to see bloodshed, we do not want to see more divisiveness, we do not want to create more Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and this time, they will be large in number and we will not know what to do with them. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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