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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wakili Sigei",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I beg to lay the following Petition on the Table of the Senate, today, Thursday, 10th August, 2023- Report on a Petition filed by the Kipsigis Community Clans Organisation regarding historical land injustices against the Kipsigis Community. I am told I have limited time. I would love to speak to this particular Petition in the shortest time possible. I want to highlight the fact that this Petition was filed by the Senate Majority Leader, the Senator for Kericho County on 9th March, 2023 following which it was committed the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights for consideration. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the salient issues in this particular Petition relates to the brutal systematic eviction of the Kipsigis Community out of their ancestral land, currently or presently Kericho, Bomet, Nandi and sections of Nakuru counties. These particular members who have petitioned this House were evicted without compensation, resettlement or any consideration of their ancestral land in what was the colonial government’s British settlers, now white islands, where a number of multinationals are running large-scale tea plantations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Petition by this particular community, therefore, seeks their ancestral land to be either reinstated, compensated or enabled to pursue the legal cases which are in various courts inside and outside the country. Therefore, for that purpose, to ensure they get reparations for the pain, loss, and suffering that the community has been subjected to for almost a century. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in considering the Petition, we visited the counties of Kericho and Bomet where we had first-hand experience. We met the community representatives. We understood the issues that were within the affected communities and the interventions that they have attempted to have over time. This report has had first-hand experiences from the grassroots. We further held serious engagements with the Kenya Tea Growers Association (KTGA), which incorporates the large-scale tea producers in the counties of Kericho and Bomet. We also considered previous submissions from the National Land Commission (NLC), the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG). All these are covered in the report which is detailed together with all the relevant documentation which were presented before the Committee by the various stakeholders that we picked. Among the issues which we observed in the course of our investigations is that these are long-lasting complaints which over time, have been subjected to various"
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