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    "id": 263875,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/263875/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "The National Land Policy, which contained in Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009, contains various recommendations on how to deal with redressing those who have suffered historical land injustices. One of them was restitution. You actually restore back those communities or those persons into status quo prior to that injustice. You literally put those persons back to where they were at the beginning. You can also compensate them as a way of dealing with historical injustices relating to land. You may also find alternative land for those persons who are affected. All these principles are found in the National Land Policy. We are empowered by the Constitution, as Parliament, to give the National Land Commission any further functions. In exercising those powers, we said that the Commission should go beyond making recommendations. Secondly, we said that in dealing with historical injustices, there should be a legal regime within which the Commission should do its work, adjudicate and thereafter give redress. So, Clause 15, which, again, is one of the important Clauses and which needs to be looked at, reads as follows:- “(15) The Commission shall within two years of its appointment recommend to Parliament appropriate legislation to provide for investigation and adjudication of claims arising out of historical land injustices for the purposes of Article 67(2)(e) of the Constitution.”"
}