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    "id": 227987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 157,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Kipng'etich Bett",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. No amount of grand-standing will solve this problem. No amount of name-calling will do so and no amount of name-dropping will do it. This problem can only be solved through sobriety, dialogue and consultation between all the parties concerned. We need to ask what happened in Mt. Elgon from 1935. We need to ask what happened in 1955 and 1971. Were the people allocated land fairly? Were the Mosop people allocated land fairly? How did the Soy people come to be together with the Mosop at Chebyuk? We need to ask those questions with sobriety and fairness. We need to find a way of solving it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was also a lot of talk about land officers. I am happy that the Minister has talked about it. There was the issue of bribery; money changing hands for land and allotment letters. It is high time that the Government appointed a team to investigate the possibility of bribery on the part of land officers, Government officials and any other party in the political sphere. We need to look at them because they are the people who caused the problem. We also need to ask ourselves what happened in phase three. Were some people displaced unfairly? Were some people removed and others put on their land? Were others removed and thrown away for political reasons? I believe that the young men in the forest went out there because of frustration. They were seeing their fore-fathers land being allocated to other people. We need to ask the question: Why did we do that? The Provincial Commissioner (PC) in that area called people to register. Was it right? With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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