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    "id": 1233707,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Daadab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "and the way they run them in the form of families when the indigenous owners of this land are not there anymore. I know if a Mugabe came into this country and asked Kenyans to support him… Look at Del Monte, which has a land lease of 99 years. What kind of a lease is that? Who made the laws? Who was consulted? Were we consulted as Africans when they were legislating on our lands? They came, colonised us, held us against our wish, and they still own the prime land. The only Africans who are very happy are those who had access to Government those days and were given millions of acres. They are going to protect them because they are exactly like them. The land of these African families who are holding millions of acres of land must be reclaimed and redistributed to the real sons and daughters of this land: those who fought for the Independence we enjoy, and the fact that we were not taken as slaves in the Carolinas, West Indies, South America or God-knows where else. It is a pity. Listen to me, Members of Parliament. I do not just want you to applaud. I want you to make the right legislative decision to reclaim all those lands and ask them to compensate us for all the exploitation they have been doing for the last 100 years. They exploited our land. They do not have to be paid for it. The African landowners who inherited from the whites and are masters owning millions of acres right now must re-distribute that land to the people whose fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers, fought for this land’s change. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we need to have a country in which, as a Legislature, we want…"
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