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    "content": "I did not deal with that at that time. Whether they are subject to eviction or whether they are being allowed to continue occupying that land is not the issue today. The issue today is the confusion that has been deliberately promoted, that it is huge populations that we are evicting from the Mau or that we want to get out of Mau. At that time, when we went into this matter, we ascertained after very long research that only 1,962 people who had acquired land in the Mau in the belief that those who had sold them the land actually owned that land--- It is because of that, that the President, who was the chairman of the committee that had been formed and which included the Minister for Lands at that time, Mr. Kimunya, it was because of that that the President directed that the 1,962 people be compensated either in kind or otherwise and that the rest were to be expelled from Mau. But because of the elections, that was not to be. So, there was an influx of people who had anger and wanted to vent it on trees and ruin the environment because they thought that it benefited a given tribe. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the people who were allocated land in Mau Forest and whose affairs I dealt with were not poor. Poverty was used as an excuse. The people who had money bought land from those they believed owned the land. This is what I think this House should be bothered with. The issue of Mau is very serious. I thought that rather than engage in the Ringera issue and all the frivolous issues, we should engage in national and international issues, because we must redeem this Bunge. We must redeem our integrity. We have gone too low in the way we value issues. If the Ringera issue is more important than that of Mau Forest, and people are trading the Ringera issue with that of Mau, I must confess that I am ashamed to be in this Bunge ."
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