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    "id": 275234,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us, finally, say that as Kenya is grappling with what is yet to come, and in the spirit of this Constitution we continue to talk about reform; reform is going to come about when there is--- I do not want to use the word ‘crusader” because in some corridors it may not be the right word. Justice also needs its soldiers. To bring about change, you must have people who believe in change and the land question in Kenya is still a looming question. It was identified as such under the dialogue process at Serena under Agenda No.4. It was a critical question, a recurrent issue that has caused violence and disputes, displacement and killings. On that question, unless we have a generation of Kenyans who believe in what Gandhi did, that God created enough for our need and not for our greed; nobody can believe in that cardinal principle if in the spirit of greed for wealth, you cannot see anything wrong in one individual owning 500,000 acres of land in an environment where some people, not only do not own land but do not have what they can call reasonable access to land. In Nairobi, we have people who cannot access even a water point, because all around them are just buildings. You go to streams and they are walled. Everywhere is like a huge urban prison and you need to scale these walls to know that a different life exists for a minority of Kenyans. Unless we have people who believe in these reforms and want them for the good of the people of Kenya. these laws may just be a small percentage in the airport, because action is what is required. I think if we are truly committed to the reform process, we must have people who are prepared to be her or his brother’s keeper, who is prepared to give a new haven to a suffering brother or sister. For people who see Kenya as belonging to us, as the late Mary Onyango, who was the Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Integration and Cohesion (NCIC)---I salute my brother, Mr. Wamalwa, for coming to that funeral. She had this in vocation and clarion call “Kenya Kwanza”. So as we talk of land as belonging to us all collectively as a nation, and community as individuals, can you think of Kenya which belongs to us collectively as Kenyans and not as communities or as tribes?"
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