Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 734468,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/734468/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 12,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Samoei, Bassi Tegendany arap Rongoei and Barserian arap Manyei who died and was buried in Mfangano Island and is the father of one of the petitioners therein. THAT during this period, intermarriages between the Talai and other communities were discouraged. THAT In 1932, the Talai in Kapsisiywa were subjected to intimidation tactics when a plane hovering over a public gathering convened by the colonial administration dropped bags of maize flour or ‘white bombs’ as it was called to scare the Talai Clan into submission. THAT, on 25th September, 1934, the colonialists passed the Ordinance for the Removal and Settlement of the Laibons. In addition, there was a roundup of members of the Talai Clan who had escaped or left out of the previous evictions. This Ordinance therefore restricted the Talai ancestors’ freedom of movement. In particular, the said Ordinance required the Talai Clan to obtain passes in order for them to visit their relatives who lived outside the concentration areas. Whereas they were granted such passes, they were prohibited from speaking to more than four people on their journey. THAT, a detailed census carried out on all the Laibons in Nandi, Tugen and Kericho revealed that by June 1936, all the Talai Clan families had been moved to Gwassi in South Nyanza. THAT the injustices inflicted upon the Talai Clan continued even after Independence as follows- (a) Instead of being accepted back into their various community areas, the Talai remained in isolation. (b) Kapsisiywa and Kericho Township concentration camps were not closed thus continuing the Talai marginalization with its attendant mental anguish and deprivation. (c) In the same way that Koitalel Samoei was beheaded, so too were the Talai - their leaders suffering extremely high mortality rates from removals, restrictions in concentration areas, often mosquito infested, barred from outside marriage and access to health care and education and ignored by their own Government after Independence; THAT they have made the best efforts to have this matter addressed by the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) with no success. THAT none of these issues raised in this Petition is pending in any court of law, constitutional or any other legal body; Wherefore your humble petitioners pray that the Senate: (a) Rrecommends that the National Land Commission (NLC) and the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) carry out investigations and consider the plight of the Talai Clan and community at large; (b) Recommends the identification and recognition of the Talai community as a specific people group; (c) Recommends to the Nandi County Government for developmental affirmative action towards the community that had been marginalized and ignored for long; (d) Recommends that the IEBC creates a specific ward to ensure that the clan is represented at the County Assembly of Nandi as was the case in the defunct County Council of Nandi; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}