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    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for National Heritage and Culture",
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even the Bomas of Kenya Constitution was never to be. It was one of the Vice-Presidents of this country and a few Ministers who came to the Bomas of Kenya and said we should pack and go home because we do not have a Constitution. I want to thank the people of Kenya and God, indeed, for the fact that we now have a Constitution. We have hope of really running this country democratically without discrimination and without other people being treated unequally. We want to bring equality to this country. I am very surprised that if you talk about the rights of people and especially on land--- My community, the Maasai, were hit by the colonialists and thrown out of their beautiful and sweet grazing land. About a million acres were occupied by the white men. It was not just taken like that. The Maasai Morans would not have agreed to move out at all but they were forced and many of them died. During the movement, because some of you have read history, many people died on the way due to exhaustion. Many old people disappeared. It is the same scenario today for our people. When the British left, we never got even an acre back although we had lost a million acres. I want people to remember this. We never even got an acre back although all the other communities especially around Kabete, Makuyu and Kikuyu got their land back. Most people got their land back but we did not get a single acre back. Look at that discrimination? What is happening right now? What is happening in Mau Narok is really a circus. The Government has decided and we are told that it must settle the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Mau Narok, whether we like it or not. That has been said by the Minister, a Provincial Commissioner in Nakuru and by other people. This is because we are considered a peripheral tribe. We are also considered a people without rights. We are considered as people who are not in the mainstream of this country and who are not supposed to be protected by the Constitution. All the people who had been arrested the other day were doing a peaceful demonstration. The police came, clobbered them, arrested them and charged them with incitement. I do not know whom they were inciting. They were all saying that they do not want to give their land to anybody and more so, the IDPs. The other day there was a meeting in Eldoret where President Kibaki went and he was presiding over what we call “a good meeting” where brotherhood and friendliness was really brought up. Indeed, the issue of KKK came up although it was denied two days after that meeting but we know that it was the main thing in that meeting. Unless that brotherhood is hypocrisy it is supposed to let people live together."
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