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"speaker_name": "Mr. Gumo",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Regional Development Authorities",
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"content": "Some of these people have been there for many years. My father bought his farm in Kitale in 1963 when I was just about 13 or 14 years old but now I am an old man. If somebody comes and tells me to move out of that land and my father died about 15 years ago, do you think I will move out? Tutauana tu. How can you move out and yet you do not have any other place? This is the problem people have. If we want to bring people together then let us sit together, reconcile and agree on how to settle them. Let us not use force. Even if you are a Minister, you cannot say: âI have said that these people must be settled here.â If you say that and then go away, will you assign everyone a bodyguard? Even if you establish a police station there--- Please, let us talk. If we want to save this country let us talk, agree and make sure that we help our people. The days of saying that it must be done are long gone. That does not work anymore. We have people who were evicted from Mau Forest and they are living along the road but nobody ever talks about them. Nobody talks about them unless they are being used for politics. There was a farm in Kitale which had been offered for sale so that people from Kitale could be settled there but up today nobody has been settled. So, let us be nationalists. Let us not only look at our people to the extent that when you are appointed to head a Ministry you only look for your brother, sister, relative or tribesman. Some of us were born here in Nairobi and we do not even know our tribe. After all, a tribe is only a way of communication. What else is it there for?"
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