Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 306500,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/306500/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 266,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "to think about. We lost all this land at gunpoint. It might not be recorded in the books of our history, because the colonial office was very careful to make all the happenings a secret. In areas like Naivasha, Nakuru and Molo, the white men said that there was an agreement to move the Maasai from the Rift Valley to the southern reserves, which are full of tsetse flies and malaria. Can you imagine if the Maasai morans, who were there reigning and whom culture had given the responsibility of protecting the community, would just move easily? You can be shown this by the massacre that took place just near Mai Mahiu during those days, where 800 in the slave caravans were killed by the Maasai moran, when they wanted to rape young Maasai girls. There was not an agreement. The Maasai moved at gunpoint and scores of young morans were killed. Even during the movement, children died of hunger, exhaustion and so forth. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, what am I trying to show? How can we be left out of the Land Commission? It is unfair. We are being totally disregarded and discriminated in this Government. One might say that we have got a young man called Lenachuru who comes from the Njemps Community, which is a small Maa community in Lake Baringo. But they, themselves, lost all the land and resources there. The whole of Baringo belonged to them, but now who is staying there? It is other people. The lodges are run by other people and they have been completely moved out of their own area. They are a small minority. What about the big areas? Why are we left out? People have gone to court and the court has decided that this thing should be suspended until the minority are heard by the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the names very carefully, there is no regional balance here at all; something that should have been considered by this Committee. I think the Committee needs more representation. It needs to call a few more people and listen to them, because this is not fair. In this country, some people are experts in lobbying. They are in every Commission, even those that they have no business in. As a result, some of the right people are left out. Maybe we are not quite enthusiastic in lobbying, but I think we should look at the truth."
}