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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this very important Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of Mau is a crisis in this country. Many people are trivializing the matter. They are looking at it as if it is a normal issue or problem. But we are sitting on a disaster. It is a disaster because there are communities that will be extinct in Kenya in the next 50 years. They will either move out of Kenya or invade others in their places. So, we have a choice here of either protecting or destroying ourselves. Indeed, we are in a path of destruction. I have heard other hon. Members saying: âLet us move quietly in a way which will be humaneâ, or whatever! We are not saying that the responsibility of humaneness will be on the Government. First and foremost, that is an issue of corruption and impunity. If we go back to history, today, the entire pastoralist community of the Maasai has lost all their entire livelihood. Where they used to go for rotational grazing of their animals during the dry periods has been occupied by other people. Some people have cultivated the land. The moment you move your cattle across there, you will be arrested for trespassing. Most of those title deeds are in the hands of the people. We are saying that we should respect the sanctity of title deeds. Yes, but let us also respect corruption. That is corruption and, as the nation of"
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