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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, how do we make special interventions to ensure that communities are taken care of in pastoral areas, where rivers and water sources are important? One of the things that we want to do in order to address these historical injustices--- The colonial power was not all the time unreasonable. Settlement schemes were established nearly in all the provinces, namely Central, Nyanza and Coast. Many people who were allocated those pieces of land were not the ones who deserved them. Again, we need to address those categories of Kenyans who were dispossessed and still live either in colonial villages or do not have access to land. One of the ways of intervention is land banking. The Government should get land either through purchase or from people who surrender land to it for purposes of addressing the quest for land amongst the poor and landless. I would also like to correct the notion that re-distribution or restitution does not mean that people must be given land. I invite you to read those Chapters carefully. Re-distribution or restitution may involve compensation or other mechanism of ensuring that those who are poor and landless get land. I have been asked many times about those who left the areas which were affected by post- election violence. I have been told that the Government should take over that land from those people. Nothing is further from the truth. Each case will be looked at on its own merit to ensure that we do not create any conflict amongst our people. The other issue that we have dealt with which I have been asked many questions on is the right of non-citizens to own land. They can own land but not for more than 99 years. In cases where they can show that they are putting land to good use, those leases can be renewed or extended."
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