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    "id": 1440257,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1440257/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kuria East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maisori Kemero",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "The problem in that area is known by everybody, including the one who asked this question. It can be traced from the 1660s when the migration of people was happening in this country. The Constitution gave us instruments through the establishment of constitutional bodies to address historical land injustices, hence the setting up of the National Land Commission (NLC). It is on record in this House that when the Laikipia migration was happening back during the colonial days, resettlement was also happening in the Trans Mara - Kuria border, which started those problems. Everybody knows that they are playing to the gallery by escaping the facts. The Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) was set up to look into those issues and documented that problem extensively. After the TJRC Report, the NLC listened to complaints by the people of Kuria, Kilgoris and the Maasai. It is unfair for us to continue receiving answers that are not solving the problem. It is not true that the people of Kuria are not in court. The Member knows that in Kilgoris and Nakuru, there is a running court case on this matter. He appeared before the NLC over the same matter, and they are reviewing it continuously. This answer is not helpful to the communities. There is no such thing as Kurias having no rights there. The Kuria have documented rights. If you go to the national archives, you will find the agreements that the colonial governments wrote during the... Governments exist in perpetuity. So, the colonial government recorded the agreements. The people of Kuria are rightfully claiming that land, and the matter has been frustrated by senior Government officials over the years. Since Independence, every Government that has been in power in this country has continuously frustrated the rights that the people of Kuria have been claiming over this. That is why you have not been told that in 2019, the National Land Commission awarded the Kuria community that said piece of land. It is only 20,000 acres. If you go to the Kenya Gazette of January 2019, the National Land Commission – a legal Commission of this country – awarded the people of Kuria that land. So, this is a scheme to keep this matter in court and to continue frustrating the people of Kuria, purporting that they have no right to live in Rift Valley. The people of Kuria live in Tanzania, Rift Valley and other jurisdictions!"
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