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    "id": 1525409,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to make some comments and provide some useful information to two Statements. One is a Statement read by Sen. Essie Okenyuri. The clashes on the border of Narok and Kisii is historical. The problem started. This has got nothing to do with cattle rustling. It has everything to do with land. Way back, there was a gentleman by the name of Oringo from the Kisi community who fundraised a lot of money to buy Maasai land, about 10 kilometres from Kisii border, all the way to Kilgoris Town. This gentleman disappeared with the money. Therefore, the land remained owned by the Maasai community. There is also a case in court where the Luo community of Awendo took the matter to court because of a place called Oloontare. This is a place where the late President Daniel arap Moi used to cultivate. It is where there is plenty of good land that the Maasai use. The gentleman who went to court from Awendo lost that case from Nairobi. That case has been transferred to Kisumu. This is an issue that these three communities must sit down and agree on because the land belongs to the Maasai community. The Kisi community wanted to buy that land. The Luo community on the Awendo side also want to take this part called Oloontare. This is a challenge. This is an issue that we have to ask ourselves whether we need to be changing laws when it comes to the issue of acquisition of land. It is a big crisis. This issue where people are pretending that they are going into some land because they are following their cows which were stolen, and then they cause people to be killed-- - I know this weekend two people from my county of Narok were killed by people who came from the neighbouring counties. This is a land crisis. This is an issue where people want to take land by force. If there is pressure for one community in this country to get land, that is not our problem. That is a problem of the national Government. We have so much land in this country, which is not occupied by anybody. Those people can migrate and move to that part. However, forcing and moving people in this boundary called Oloontare and also allowing land brokers to bring conflict between three communities, should not be tolerated. 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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