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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Pukose",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Pukose",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. First and foremost, I want to thank hon. Wangamati for having worked very tirelessly to bring this Motion. When I met hon. Wangamati here in Parliament, I asked him whether he was the leader of the February Eighteenth Movement, FERA, and he told me that he was the one. This is because at that time some of us were very young when he ran away to Ghana because of the frustrations and the wars between him and Moi’s regime. So this Motion is timely. We know that when Kahengeri took this key case to the British court with the people from Kiambu and Nyeri, part of the team that was Mau Mau was compensated but the larger team has not been compensated. We know that there were various atrocities that were committed by the British Government. Some of them date back to as early as when they invaded this country in the name of the scramble for and partition for Africa. We know that when the colonialists came, our forefathers, for us in Trans Nzoia we used to occupy that place as the Sabaot and Chief Kesis Arap Kembet resisted the colonialists. In 1930 we had the issue of the Carter Commission that forced our people to migrate; some of them to Uganda, Sudan, some to as far as Ruwenzori Mountains, the Bakonjo and other areas. During that time they were made to sign what was called “the rule of blue” in which blue was the ink which was used to stamp the authority of the white man. Most of them lost their cows. We lost many cows which were killed during that time to create room for the British and this has not been compensated. We feel that, that should be enjoined. Later on when Kenya attained Independence, the biggest challenge is that for those who fought for Uhuru they were never compensated because children of the home guards are the ones who had gone to school and they were the ones who occupied senior positions within the Government. Therefore, some of them have falsified many records and the genuine Mau Mau fighters and the genuine freedom fighters at the end of the day might not really get the compensation of their descendants. During Kenyatta’s regime, some of our people were forced--- For instance, in 1976, our people in Kaptega were banned by the GSU from the forest, their houses destroyed and their cattle was killed. This has never been documented. We even have people who are now Senators who during that time were Provincial Administrators. Sen. Haji was the Provincial Commissioner in Rift Valley in the later ages when our people were being evicted all the way from Kiboroa Forest. These are people who supervised that. These are people who are still alive and today they are in positions of leadership. They need to look at some of these issues and rectify them."
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