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    "id": 266310,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/266310/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 200,
        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
        "slug": "william-ntimama"
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    "content": "We were moved by the British by force to the lands of the south which were infested with tse tse fly and malaria. The sweet grass of central rift; Nakuru, Naivasha and Molo was given to other people. Our cattle died because of lack of pasture. What am I trying to say? Even the successive Governments of this country were not sympathetic to us. They continued diminishing and eating part of our land. We want our land back. But more importantly, we want compensation for the land that we lost. We want some reparation for the lives of our people that were lost through the British gun. In the big movement, and I am sure those who have read the history of the country know that many of our people were killed during the big movement from the Rift Valley to the Southern Reserve. The many scores of morans were killed in cold blood when they were trying to resist the movement. You cannot imagine in those years a Maasai moran being told to move and just agree and say: “Yes, I will move!” They staged a fight and these people fought with the British who had already manufactured a machine gun during the industrial revolution. So, it was their naked bodies which received the bullets from a machine gun. Many died and they were forced to move. We need those reparations!"
}