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    "content": "Apart from that, I want to touch on the sensitive issue called compensation. I have had my stand and democracy must allow everybody to have his own opinion. I have said that looking at Cap.284, the Land Adjudication Act; it provides that if the land has to be adjudicated and given to people, first of all, it must be those people who were ordinarily residents. I do not think anybody was born on the Mau. So, nobody can claim to be a genuine ordinary resident on the Mau. According to the Act a committee should be elected by those people. There would be a map of the area and these two things must be published in the gazette for 60 days so that the people of Kenya can see whether that adjudication is legal. They can oppose it within the 60 days. Now, it is not only those two sections of the law that were flouted, ignored and probably thrown aside, it is the whole Act. So, I cannot see--- The only people who were really responsible for the allocation of land there were the Land Officer in Narok, who is supposed to be a registrar, the surveyor who went to the forest illegally and some crafty senior people in the Ministry of Lands. The allocation cannot be said, therefore, to be legal. Even if those people have title deeds, to me, they were acquired fraudulently, illegally, irregularly and it does not matter, you cannot say that anything is right. What are we doing? Are we compensating or rewarding the grabbers? Are we rewarding people who have entered into a water catchment area illegally? Are we rewarding people who craftily and fraudulently got those pieces of paper? This Parliament will remember that in 2005, the Cabinet commissioned Messrs. Kombo, Kimunya and I, to investigate this matter. We went there and stayed to investigate everything, especially the allocation and issuance of title deeds. We brought a report to the Cabinet and made a public statement to say that those title deeds were just pieces of paper. Of course, there was a big row and it was not only Mr. Amos Kimunya but we were all there; it was our group that declared that they were only pieces of paper. So, I am asking: What are we rewarding? Are we rewarding illegality? What about our people in Mt. Kenya? If anybody is to be paid any compensation, they were also there but they were not paid a cent until just the other day. They were wallowing by the roadside; those from Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares. What is special about the squatters in Mau? What are we making it? Is it squatters of the Mau only? If, for example, it is so important that we must consider all the citizens of Kenya fairly and justly, we must absolutely support the principle of equity. There are no more special people than others!"
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