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    "id": 1220434,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1220434/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
        "slug": "aaron-cheruiyot"
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    "content": "The salient issues raised in the Petition are as follows- (1) That the British Colonial Government forcefully took away the Kipsigis ancestral land during the colonial period- (a) There was no compensation to the Kipsigis Community for the land taken for settlement by the British. Instead, the Kipsigis people became squatters and forced to provide cheap labour to the British settlers. (b)After the First World War, the colonial Government forcefully evicted the Kipsigis Community from their ancestral land around Kericho, Kerenga and Tagabi estates and the whole of the African highlands so as to give it to the British soldiers in the name of British East African Disabled Officers Colony. (c) The forcibly taken away land includes: Unilever tea, Brookbond or now Ekaterra, James Finlay, which was then African Highlands, George Williamson in charge of Changoya and Lesla, Sotik Tea, Sotik highlands, Kaisugu tea, Mau tea, Koru and Fort Tenan farms, Kapnomads, Kabianga Tea and Tinga farms amongst other. When Kenya gained Independence in 1963, the land forcefully taken from the Kipsigis Community continued to be held and used by those who forcibly acquired it during the colonial administration."
}