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    "id": 407513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "know. Kenyans want to move on. We do not want to go back to those things every other time. We just want to clear it once and for all for Kenyans to move on. On issues at land, there have been a lot of historical injustices. Many Kenyans are landless in their country and there are so many foreigners who own huge chunks of land. For instance, in the Coast Province, there are prominent people who are not residents who own large chunks of land. I think I must congratulate the President, the Deputy President and the Jubilee manifesto for the title deeds they issued the other day. That is because many of the residents had never seen a title deed. I am also surprised that some people were saying this was being used as a political tool, when we know some of them were in the Government and they did not issue a single title deed. They are now saying that those title deeds were fake. We are telling them that we shall take title deeds to their areas. In land matters also, we need to see this area. We have seen foreigners owning big chunks of land, while Kenyans are landless; they are squatters in their own country, and this one, we must address. We cannot say, let us forget and move forward when we know there are a lot of people suffering. As hon. Members, we have a duty and mandate, given to us by the people of Kenya, to represent them and reorientation includes fighting these injustices. We want to support hon. Millie Odhiambo that we do it the way it was done in Rwanda. If you go to Rwanda now, there are no people called the ‘Hutus’ and the ‘Tutsis’. They have decided that those labels need to be done away with and they just call themselves “Rwandese”. Here in Kenya, we have so many tribes and we too need to go the Rwanda way for our people to reconcile. Remember what happened in 2007, when this country exploded on political lines. This does not mean that when we have different opinions in politics it should go all the way to our tribes or our people. We need to be one as a country, known only as “Kenyans” and not as tribes. That is why I am saying that for us to move on, let the truth be told, justice be done, and then this country will reconcile and move on. With those few remarks, I oppose this Bill. Thank you hon. Speaker Sir"
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