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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gumo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fredrick fidelis Omulo Gumo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another thing is that you have seen what has been in the Press, particularly about Maasailand. This farm in Maasailand that was bought for IDPs has brought some resistance from the Maasais. That is not something to take simply. It is a serious matter. I have heard some people say that they had said it and it must be done. Well, there are people who will protect these people individually. Some of these people were chased away from Eldoret, Nakuru and so on, and now you are taking them to Maasailand. The reason why they were chased out is exactly the same reason for which the Maasais are protesting. You want to put them there by force. Will you really manage? The Maasais are also saying that they are also have squatters there and that is their land. They have said that those IDPs will be settled there over their dead bodies. The Government is arresting them and taking them to court, because they are resisting Government effort to resettle IDPs there. Why do you not call elders and everybody else to sit together, so that they agree on how to go about this issue? You cannot force issues; those Maasais are serious and they are not going to allow anybody to settle on this land. I am saying this because I have seen it. Why do you not move these people to another area? The Government should settle them in another area instead of having this problem. This is because you cannot say that in Kenya, you can settle people anywhere, when the same people have been chased away from another place. Why were they chased away from that place? We should find out ways of helping these people. If they had land in those areas and some people have even said that they have reconciled, why can they not go back to their land? If there is reconciliation then people should go back to their land."
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