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    "content": "useful for irrigation to be irrigated and those which should be reserved for forestry should be left for that purpose. The tribes that occupied Arab lands were denied and deprived of land by colonial settlers. That is the historical injustice that we are talking about. Talk about the Delmonte Farm in Thika which is owned by one Italian, how many acres of land does it have? The 99 year lease which they were given has now expired and they are trying to play with it so that it can get a lease for another 99 years. We will not allow that to happen. This is something that was done before some of us were born but we understand the history now and can interpret these historical injustices. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let us treat land as a factor of production so that those areas which can produce are used for production and those which are good for pastoralism are used for them same. That is what we call opportunity cost. If an area is not good for anything, then it can be good for tourism or mining. That is what we are going for and that what this Motion is calling for. This Motion is also asking what will happen to those people who were displaced from their parcels of land through the force of human power, like IDPs. Why should there be IDPs in a country that has been independent for 50 years? When you talk about IDPs, how did it happen? Were they the first people to occupy those parcels of land? The first people, as I had told you earlier, were the colonialists who were given land as a reward for taking part in the First and Second World War and also to construct the railway from Mombasa to Kisumu with a branch to Nanyuki. Out of that, the ones who were displaced from those parcels of lands are the ones now who became settlers and squatters. They are somehow being displaced now because of human force. That is why we are talking about IDPs. This is not something that should happen in the present century. Elsewhere, it has not happened and it should not be allowed to happen here in Kenya. Let us all agree that we are living in one country but let us also recognise tribal boundaries and that we need to have people settle in their respective parcels of land. I support."
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