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    "content": "take their fish. Where will the fishermen at the Coast take their fish because there are no visitors at tourist hotels? Moving away from the issue of hotels, the indigenous people of the Coast are not the land owners even where land exists for other businesses enterprises. We should not bring the argument that they sold land. What else could they do? Unfortunately, that is the truth. Land has been sold at throwaway prices out of desperation. It is now 50 years later but there is still marginalisation because other parts of this country have moved forward, consolidated and kept their parcels of land. How many people from the Coast can be found all over in any of the other regions, yet you will find people from other regions at the Coast? If you looked at the statistics, it will make you to think about issues of land especially in the Coast. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I happened to be a Member of the task force that had been established by the former Prime Minister to look at the historical injustices. One of the issues that we looked at was land. At that time, we were under a Coalition Government and made progress. When that office ceased to exist, we did not get any more funding. That work could not continue, although it was important and needed to be done. We needed to go through all the various counties within the former Coast Province, establish what was going on and how it could be addressed. There is nothing as bad as dealing with a population of people who carry very many grievances. We are restricted to using either English or Kiswahili language at any given time. However, there is a Kiswahili word I would really want to use to capture the situation about what people feel. The word is “ mlipuko” . At one point, people will explode because they have been holding that for long. If there is somebody who is decent, calm, progressive and polite, then, that person is from the Coast. If these kinds of injustices are bottled up over and over again, we will move into a situation that is not good for us. That task force, therefore, did not complete its work. I am looking at the insight of the former Prime Minister setting up the task force"
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