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    "id": 800009,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the two minutes to comment and support this Petition. My leader talked about a black person taking the land of another black person. When I reflect on all the land issues that we have, I come to the conclusion that the full dispensation of land by the British colonial masters set precedent to all the problems that we have in this country regarding land ownership but the people who took over the land from the colonial masters make them look like philanthropists. There are issues surrounding land ownership which include the way people are kicked out of their land like the Maasais and the Talais. There is a question of leasehold. Most of the land owned by the colonial masters had a lease period of 99 years. What happened? When you commit this to the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources, those are the questions that they should be asking. When the lease expired, how was it renewed? Were the people who were kicked out of those parcels of land considered? We have a very good Constitution that guarantees everyone a roof but where do you take these people when the land that they were raised and brought up on was taken away from them? All the land issues can only be resolved if we are bold enough. I commend the President for saying that he will be the first one to fight corruption but the only way we can win this war is when the President decides to implement the TJRC Report tomorrow. I know that the Maasais are complaining. Their land was taken away from them and they were sent away from Laikipia down to the reserve areas. This issue is very important and I want to request the President to consider what I have said."
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