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    "id": 820158,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/820158/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard ole Kenta",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 420,
        "legal_name": "Richard Moitalel ole Kenta",
        "slug": "richard-moitalel-ole-kenta"
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    "content": "Kenyans. The tourists come to Kenya because of the Maasai Mara. The moment you destroy it, you have destroyed yourselves. The moment you destroy it, your children will not get bursaries for those who are getting them from Narok. You will not get employment or anything. You will just be destroying yourselves. All I can say is that let us divorce ourselves from this. Let the people come out of the Mau. Let them get out of other forests and let us not ethnicise this thing. If it comes to ethnic arguments, everybody has their tribe. Let us think as Kenyans and think as one. You cannot have the Maasais there because you fight them, you fight the Kikuyus there, you fight the Luos there, and you fight the Kisiis there. Why should you be the enemy of everybody? Why should you be the enemy of everybody, yet we are Kenyans? It is wrong. What I would like to say is simply this: let us conserve our environment. Let us safeguard our forests. Let us get people out of these sensitive areas. Let us compensate whoever is supposed to be compensated. There is nothing wrong with that. But, let us not create a situation whereby somebody is chased from Mau West, they are given land there, they sell it and become squatters. We have permanent squatters in this country. They run from one county to another. They run from one district to another so that they can be compensated. For how long will we have Kenyans permanently running from place to place? It is time we thought about this thing. The Maasais have no problem with anybody but at the same time we are not anybody’s doormat to be stepped on by everybody. Let it be known that we are not anybody’s doormat. We can fight for our rights. We do not need anybody to fight for us. I believe Kenyans are now with us. They have realised that we are under siege. Kenyans should realise that. Kenyans must come to our aid if they have to save the Maasai Mara and all the other places. We have never gone to anybody’s county to shout. People from other counties have been coming all over. They should keep to their places."
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