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    "id": 407593,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "were rights which had not been recognized. If we had taken the route of truth, justice and reconciliation in 2008, even the debate of moving us to the ICC would not have happened. This is because we want this nation to heal rather than build walls and allow people to sit on the two sides of the divide. The importance of this Bill goes to the heart of those communities affected since the colonial times. I am speaking for the people in the ASAL areas whose rights until today in terms of equal opportunity, marginalization in land ownership, employment and insecurity have not been recognized. This Bill sets us on a road so that we recognize the issues that hurt this country. If the National Assembly addresses itself to those issues then those rights and underpinning issues can be addressed. In the implementation of this Report, that is what I am really concerned about. Two days ago I was called by my constituents. We were to drill a borehole and the neighbouring constituents came by and said, “You are drilling a borehole within our boundaries.” When we looked at the maps, lines were drawn without really looking at where the communities should settle, or where they have settled historically. It is as a result of the challenges posed by land issues such as the ownership and boundaries since the colonial times."
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