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    "id": 188746,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/188746/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Olweny",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 122,
        "legal_name": "Patrick Ayiecho Olweny",
        "slug": "patrick-olweny"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Ndung'u Report was displayed here. He has a copy. He knows the names of the people mentioned in the Ndung'u Report. So, I do not need to substantiate the obvious, which the hon. Member already knows. Early this year, we had a serious problem after the general elections. Some of the causes of those problems are related to land issues. The land problems in this country have made people to shed blood. It is something which we should not deny. Go back to the colonial days. The Mau Mau uprising was connected to the land issue. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to some extent, the Mau Mau uprising was connected to the liberation struggle, but the key issue was land, because the white people came, grabbed the Africans' land, pushed people aside and cultivated the land. So, the Africans wanted their land back. Thus we had the Mau Mau uprising. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, after Independence, there was settlement and re- settlement of people by the Kenyatta Government in the 1960s, and by the Moi regime in the 1980s respectively, which was followed by land grabbing in the 1990s. Some of these problems led to what we saw. There are people whose land was taken by Government leaders. Those people were then taken to other parts of the country. The people whose land those other people were settled on, objected recently. They said to those people: \"Go back to where you came from.\" These are the historical problems we must address, as the leadership of this country, and sort them out once and for all. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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