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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, did you hear that story where someone has the title deed of the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) grounds. I will not be surprised if the Parliament buildings are squatting on private land. How do we know? If the invaders wanted to take over Parliament, they would have been taking over private property, until we see the title deed that belongs to Parliament. The KICC issue has never been resolved. I wish the Chairperson of the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources, and it is good the Senate Majority Leader is here, to tell us the fate of the title deed of the KICC and the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) grounds. We need to know where the title is. We had an issue in Nyamira yesterday, where we were discussing the issue of titling of some of their wetlands and the riparian lands we are discussing. We must, therefore, take the issue of public land seriously. I know it has been a source of tribal clashes. When you read the Ndung’u Report, no one wants to implement this report. I do not want to talk about the Kroll Report during Kibaki’s Government. No one dares to touch the Ndung’u Report and that is where the problem of Kenyan land issues is. There was the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) report by the late Amb. Bethuel Kiplagat. We should look at the TJRC Report and the Ndung’u Report if we want to address the issue of land historical injustices and the challenges facing land, including absentee landlords in the Coastal Region. Whenever you fly over the Nandi Hills sub- county and over-fly Kericho and Bomet, when you see the beauty of those tea plantations, they are blood and sweat. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my community where I come from has never benefitted from that land. The Lipton Tea that is taken to London today is stained with blood. This is because the land with the tea bushes is blood-owned and grabbed by post and pre- colonialists. I will not fear to contradict myself. Today, what value do you give to our people in the South Rift and North Rift, especially in Nandi who are living like gorillas and chimpanzees because the fertile and most critical part of the land is being tilled by companies that are not even in Kenya? Their owners have never stepped in Kenya. When you are in London, Heathrow in Europe and Germany, you take very nice tea and say, this is Kenyan tea. However, behind it, there are deaths, anguish, land historical injustices and blood that was---"
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