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    "id": 1457800,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1457800/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "We have been oppressed by Governments that have come in and gone. Every time we elect a Government, we hope that they will be the saviour of our community. As the late hon. Mzee Ole Ntimama, had mentioned at the National Assembly, that the Maasai community has lost over a million acres of land, including in Nairobi. We have never tried to claim back the land that is in this city. The only thing this community has been claiming and wants to be listened to, is to be given reparations and compensations. Where is justice and truth in Kenya? The Ndungu Land Commission came and any other commissions, but we have continued losing land. The other day, we were attending some meeting in Nairobi of a small team that is trying to see whether it is right to return back Amboseli National Park to Kajiado County. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was this lady in Uganda who went to fight in the bushes and sometimes, I feel like becoming a guerilla. I feel so pained and at times I feel we should have such. This is because you see your community losing daily. You will find someone coming and telling us that they are conservationists or they are KWS. In some of these Kenyan communities, there is no wildlife in their areas. There is no wildlife in Kiambu today. If they see a hippo coming out of a dam, they will get out with pangas and slashers to finish it and taste its meat. In some other places like our neighbouring counties, there are no antelopes and birds and they want to come and dictate to a community that has conserved wildlife throughout. They want to dictate to us on what do with Amboseli and the wildlife there, even the wildlife that is in our farms. Even today, the wildlife feeds from our private farms. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, who should come and tell us whether Amboseli should really go back to Kajiado County? It is a shame because even when civility, honesty and justice is required, some communities do not seem to get it. It is like we belong to another Kenya and yet, Kenya got independence in 1963. That is the rest of Kenya because, there is a part of Kenya that is yet to be liberated. Not from the mzungu but from fellow black people. You bring us other Kenyans to dictate to us whether Kajiado County should get back Amboseli. It was this week; I am not speaking from the blues. I attended a meeting at Serena and we were told that they had gone to do public participation in Isiolo, Meru and Kiambu. Public participation to ask the rest of Kenya about Amboseli, as if a fly from Amboseli has ever settled in Kiambu! Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, why should you go ask Isiolo people whether Kajiado should get back Amboseli? They have their own game reserves, national parks and animals. Let the Kajiado people be consulted about Amboseli. Things are not done in this country, where either Kenya belongs to all of us or belongs to no one, where we all have rights or we all do not have. I was annoyed when I sat in that meeting and saw Kenyans. I could see this person was from Machakos, the other one from Meru and another one from Kiambu where they no longer have birds in the air because they have killed all of them, coming to dictate to us about Amboseli. Amboseli should go back to Kajiado County and rightfully so. The President has made public pronouncements about Amboseli going back to Kajiado, but just in case it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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