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    "id": 734476,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo",
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        "legal_name": "John Krop Lonyangapuo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to congratulate Sen. Sang and the Petitioners. Although the Petition and desire of the people of Talai is older than the Republic of Kenya, it would have been incumbent upon every successive government to look at some of the injustices that were meted out on some communities or clans. In the Rift Valley the Talai Clan leads, given the misplacement that we have read and heard from their history. When I was a Permanent Secretary we visited Kericho and found the Talai confined to a corner – where the Commissioner stayed – so that they could be watched. Unfortunately, we inherited that kind of oversight to date. Members of that community have been buried very close to that place. Just as the people who fought colonialists in Mt. Kenya region were compensated about four years ago, it is incumbent upon the Government to follow up so that some of these people are compensated by being given land and locating the head and burial place of Koitalel arap Samoei. Indeed, it is important for communities to know where they came from and identify their leaders. We read from history that in 1923 there was a mass exodus of the Pokots, Sabaots and Marakwets from Trans Nzoia, and they remember to date. Justice should have been done by giving some money to those communities that were displaced from their fertile land. Some justice should have been done by compensating those communities who were displaced from their lands. There should have been some kind of compensation to the affected counties so that they can resettle people who went to dry regions. I support."
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