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    "id": 125857,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must remove the Mau Forest Complex issue from ethnic and party politics. We must also remove the Mau Forest Complex issue from the various allowances in this House. All we are saying is that we must solve the Mau Forest issue through dialogue, and in accordance with the Constitution and other laws of this country. Mr. Muriithi basically cited Section 70 of the Constitution, which talks about the human rights of the people of the Mau Forest. I want to say very clearly that every hon. Member of this House must put himself in the shoes of the people living in the Mau Forest. The people living in the Mau Forest are just like the people living in the area where I come from – Dujis. The people living in the Mau Forest are just like the people whom the President of this country, Hon. Mwai Kibaki, represents in Othaya. They are all Kenyans. The laws that protect the sanctity of property and lives of the Kenyan people must be respected. That has been the bone of contention. We must move away from the double-speak that is done by leaders in this House. We must get away from hypocrisy and dishonesty. Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the weekend, some leaders in this House were in Kilgoris, on the Maasai part of the country. They said that the people in Mau Forest must be evicted. Twelve hours later, the same leaders went to Kericho, where they said that the people of Mau Forest must not be evicted. That is double-speak by Members of Parliament sitting in this House. We must delink conservation or protection of the environment, from people’s ethnic background. We must delink the lives and property of the people of Mau from individual’s hatred for some communities. I come from a region where the law has not been implemented well over time, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. I come from a region that suffered from implementation of the Emergency Law – where the then Government could go and kill its own people – but I stand in this House with the people of Mau Forest. As much as we want to protect and conserve the environment, the rights of the people of Mau, and those of other people in this country must be protected all the time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the history of Mau Forest is long overdue. The Government of the late President Kenyatta was involved. The Government of former President Moi was involved. The Government of President Kibaki, in 2006, issued 11,000 title deeds to the people of Mau. We must speak the facts. It is the successive Governments of this country that put people in the Mau Forest; it is not the people who took themselves there. It is, therefore, the business of this Government, using the Constitution, and not this Report, to find an amicable way of removing people from Mau Forest to protect our water towers. Sections 70 and 75 of the Constitution, the Compulsory Land Acquisition Act, and the Registered Land Act have been brought to this House for one fundamental reason. I am happy that the Secretariat that was formed to look into the Mau Forest Complex issue is here. The contents of the Report in pages 11, 30, 43, 45 and 47 are not compatible with the Constitution of this country. That is what we are saying. That is why"
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