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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. Land is very important to some of us. It is very emotive when we think about historical issues about land in our areas and country in general. If you take into consideration the provisions of Article 63 of the Constitution of Kenya and this Community Land Bill, we have done ourselves, as a country, a very big thing. We have moved a very big step forward in terms of making community land secure and well managed and administered. In my opinion, the combination of this Bill and Article 63 of the Constitution is a giant leap forward for community land in this country. If you were to take a step back and consider the theoretical existence of this Bill and the provisions of the Constitution in 1963 and 1911, we would be in a better place and we would be proud of ourselves as a country on what community land would have been today. Somebody was talking about the Maasai people here. Today, it is very difficult to put into perspective how much land the people who speak the Maa language, including the Samburu people, have lost in this country. The first stroke was in 1911 when Lenana signed a treaty with the white people at that time. All the Maasailand in Laikipia and many other parts of Samburu and Rift Valley was taken through a stroke of a pen. In fact, the place where the treaty was signed in 1911 is today called Ang’atapos. It is a very historical place in Kenya. Today, it is nothing else but a small garden of cabbages owned by an individual. We have lost so much that we can only forget so that we can move forward. Today, even in Nairobi, where people own land that is very valuable, there is very little that is owned by the Maasai people. If we had the provisions of this Constitution and this Bill, the Maasai would be the richest people in Africa. They would own prime land in the leafy suburbs of Nairobi. This is a very welcome Bill. The Constitution is also very welcome. We can only improve on this Bill and the Constitution. We have that opportunity as Members of Parliament and members from those communities. The realisation of group ranches by the Constitution as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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