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    "id": 1220486,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1220486/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mandago",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kiplagat Jackson Mandago",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise in support of the Petition by the Senator of Kericho and our Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Cheruiyot, on the historical injustices and the compensation required for those who were affected by colonialists. Successive administrations in this country, right from independence, have failed to address the issue of historical injustices that arose from the process of colonization of this country. Looking at this nation, starting from the Coast; in the independent Kenya of 60 years, we are still discussing issues of squatters on their own land with absentee landlords who grabbed the lands from the citizens and natives of those places. Successive administrations, I do not know whether it is through cowardice or that they were worried not to displease the former colonial masters. We have never been able to address that matter. The entire Rift Valley is a region where natives were driven out so that the Whites, particularly the British and the Boers then could occupy the very prime, fertile agricultural lands. The most unfortunate thing is that even after Independence, the same colonialists now mutated and called themselves investors, international companies, citizens and owners of the same land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is time as a nation; we cannot move forward without addressing the injustices that have been meted on Kenyans. Sixty per cent of Laikipia is occupied by ranches owned by the British. The same colonialists who disposed of the people who lived in Laikipia, today, they still own 60 per cent of the land. That is why some of the challenges that we need to address such as cattle rustling as a result of pasture and water cannot be addressed. This is because one rancher owns a million acreas and the citizens are being confined to the highlands and the hilly parts while the British are game-hunting in our own land. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you look at----"
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