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    "content": "Hills, Mt. Kenya and Mt. Elgon. It is important that we are sober in the debate on the issue of the Mau Forest. I am one person who has been in Mau Forest two times in the last one week, on the Narok South Constituency side. I have tremendous respect for the environment. Despite the fact that I grew up in the forest, I accepted to move out of Embobut Forest voluntarily without compensation. It is something we have debated in the last Parliament. In fact, I do not think there is any other Senator who can claim the kind of legitimacy that I have on conservation and protection of our environment. This is because of the kind of sacrifice I made for a place where I was born and called home to just give way, so that we can protect our environment and that people in the lower side on the Turkana side can continue having water and irrigation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was shocked by the brutalities, violation of human rights and destruction of property that I witnessed in Mau Forest. Article 43 of the Constitution has been violated wantonly. I wonder why and I ask myself: “Why is it that the Senator for Narok County would chose to defend one issue in his county against the other? I watched him last night saying that those people should go where they came from. If this conversation of where people came from continued we would never have a nation. The actual conversation we should be having is that there are people. There are 4,000 children who are not in school because ten schools have been closed. If you are the Senate Majority Leader who works for the Government and campaigned for President Uhuru Kenyatta to be the President of this Republic speaking in the manner in which I am doing, it is because of the pain that people go through. I know that when I was a young boy, we lost many children who would have been like Sen. Murkomen in Embobut Forest because people slept in the Forest. I personally know that there are many people who would have been Senators and lawyers like me, but they never made it because their education was disturbed by the same way of evicting people. We cannot just sit here and pretend to be leaders, calling ourselves the defenders of the weak and we do not stand firm to defend the weak whether they are in Narok County, Embobut or Kakamega County. I can see my time up. However, I know you gave Sen. Malalah two more minutes because he is the Senate Minority Leader. So, I ask for three more minutes, being the Senate Majority Leader."
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