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    "content": "\"I swear that I will fight for the African soil that the white man has stolen from us\". That was the oath. Other details of the oath are included in this document, which I have already tabled. The whole oathing issue was about that African soil that the white man took from the Africans. It had nothing more than that. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to say that these issues had been addressed and people had been aggrieved for very many years. For instance, in 1913, a Maasai took the Colonial Government to court, challenging the illegality of the Maasai Treaty. The Colonial Government made a landmark ruling that the Maasai Treaty was a treaty between two nations and, therefore, the magistrate court could not give a ruling on that. Those are some of the things that we have witnessed over the years in relation to this. How did it all happen? When the freedom fighters went to the forest to fight, the white man responded by enacting the Forfeiture of Land Ordinance, 1953 No.11 of 1954, which essentially meant that any African male, particularly those ones from the affected areas that were not in their homes for a given time, whether they were on Safari or wherever they were, forfeited their land automatically. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want this Government to accept that they took over from that bad Government; the Colonial Government. They put notices in the Kenya Gazette, for instance: Government Notice No.517 of 14th April, 1955; Government Notice No.516 of 14th April, 1955; Government Notice No.988 of 24th July, 1955; Notice No.991 of 11th July, 1955 and Government Notice No.993. All these notices had bad words like the Forfeiture of Land Ordinance 1953 (No.11 of 1954) - Native Land Rights Confiscation Order. It read as follows:- \"Whereas I am satisfied that each of the persons named in the schedule have since the 11th day of July, 1955, being the appointed day for the purpose of Section 3 of the Forfeiture of Land Ordinance 1953, participated or aided in armed or violent resistance against the forces of law and order now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 3, Section 3(1) of the Forfeiture of Land Ordinance 1953, I hereby 2552 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES October 8, 2008 make this Native Land Rights Confiscation Order against each of the said persons as in the said ordinance provided.\" Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the names are in their thousands. They committed no crime. These orders were made by a legitimate Government, which was the Colonial Government, that handed over power to this Government. They took people's land and later on consolidated it and the Government must own up to this mess. I wish to lay on the Table part of the many orders the then Government published in the Gazette Notice."
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