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"speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
"speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture",
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Maasai Community has never been satisfied. During the Lancaster House Constitution, the Maasai delegation never signed that constitutional note. This is because we wanted the British to give us our land back, but instead, they handed over the country without addressing land issue. They gave it to the Government and we were left out. We were discriminated! We were thrown out up to today. It is also true that our land has been diminishing all these other years. This is because the successive regimes of this country have not been sympathetic to us. I think it is time we thought about what kind of sympathies we, as Government, will extend to the Maasai Community because they have contributed a lot to the development of this country. If anybody was reading the history of this country just to see what the previous governors of this country said, in one stroke of the pen, one of the British governors said: “Leave the Maasai alone because they are not submissive” I can show anybody that kind of book and where it is written. We were never submissive! We are not even submissive today. We are not asking for mercy. We are asking for our rights. We are not asking for anybody to care for our mercy. We want our rights. We think we should get part of the central rift back."
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