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    "id": 462685,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/462685/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, Laikipia is one very unique county in our country. I want to thank hon. Lempurkel for bringing up this issue. I also want to thank the Committee for the steps it took because it is very important and it sets precedent for what Laikipia should be. Laikipa is one county where Africans occupy a very small place and the rest of it is occupied by white ranchers, who are very few. If anybody has the history of Laikipia in mind, this was done in a very bad way. When both the Africans and the whites went to the Second World War under the British flag, only the whites were compensated and were given an entire county to occupy. If we go by what the Community has come up with, it is a very important precedent. I want to ask the Committee whether there is a way in which it can extend the same thing that was done in Lekiji to many other parts of Laikipia. Many residents of Laikipia, who are black, have been there for centuries, but every year, a white person from some part of the world comes up and says that they have bought this land. There is a trend that has been set in Laikipia that is very weird. Everybody who buys land on the ranches is always white. Is there anything discriminatory in our country such that when you sell land, you sell to somebody who is white like you? Why not to a Samburu?"
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