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    "id": 275266,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Culture and National Heritage",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. So, these historical injustices are real and they are, definitely, some of the things that must be addressed. We seem to not seriously think about them; we seem to go over them without really putting some emphasis on them. These historical injustices are real, and unless we really try and sort them out, they might be a source of trouble in the future. If there was anything called establishing, studying very carefully--- In fact, we should establish a proper professional committee under the Ministry of Lands to look into some of these historical injustices, the loss of life, the loss of land and all these things by certain communities from the Coast right through to the northern Rift Valley. I think it could help the Government to try and settle people. In a way, for example, if there is anything to do with compensation, then the people should be compensated. If people lost hundreds or thousands of lives, then they should be paid reparations. This is because this Government took over from the British Government and I think in a way, it is the successor to what the British actually did to the people here; it should be responsible for some of these injustices that have taken place. If it is reparations, if it is compensation, if it is just a question of saying “We are sorry that it happened--- We have seen some of this in the world. We have seen the Prime Minister of Australia apologize to the Aborigines of Australia for the land they lost; we have seen some of this land being given back to them; we have seen them being handsomely compensated, so that their schools can be rebuilt, and so forth. The bushmen of South Africa, for example, who lost their land also got it back. They got just a little bit of it before Verwood relinguished the reigns of power of the then South African Government."
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