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    "id": 383716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for protecting me. Actually, they have eaten into my time. But when you say something which is true, it pricks people. So, I am not surprised. Madam Temporary Speaker, the point that I am making is that if we are going to solve the IDPs problem - I am just being very truthful – we must understand the genesis of the problem. You cannot run away from it because it exists in history. The genesis of a problem must be limited to a certain time. In this regard, we are not talking about since Kenya became a colony and since it became an independent nation. We are more concerned now about how these issues of IDPs start after Independence. It is more reasonable. If we do that, then we shall know what kind of policies we have - Sen. G.G has asked for the kind of Government policies that realistically address this IDPs issue. But if we are going to do it by pretences, excuses and so on, it will be there perpetually. We may hold elections in future, but if we do not have serious policies on land reform and redistribution, which take into account the historical antecedents of land conflicts in this country, we shall be going nowhere. This is as true as it is that Tuesday follows from Monday. Madam Temporary Speaker, secondly, at the moment, power politics in this country is very much associated with land ownership. That is why it is also going to be very difficult to solve the IDPs problem realistically. This is because we have very vested interests in solving the land question. Unless this Senate can confront that truism, we shall sit here and be partisan one way or the other and not get an answer. That is my honest opinion. This is because we seem to be offering a very simple solution, which politicians always offer, which says: “We have the correct person who will do it.” That is not enough. You must say whether that correct person has the tools for doing what you are saying that he is going to do. Those tools must come from conviction and proper social relations in society. But at the moment, for example, the very leaders being applauded now, are busy in politics that will take us back to the 1960s; buying and inducing people with money to join them on their side. This is not going to help. We will go back to the one-party system which will not help us at all."
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