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    "id": 839331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I hear minority groups complaining particularly about forest evictions, I feel for them. Since the previous Parliament, I have always said that some of us are lucky to be here. There are people who have occupied land which used to be forest, therefore, leaving squatters and especially young and school going children to suffer immensely. I have a personal experience of having had to sleep in shanties after eviction from the Embobut Forest. I do not like to hear that anyone is being evicted; whether from the Mau, Embobut or South Nandi forests because it is barbaric. We have a Government. That means that we have self-rule, law and order. I personally witnessed it happen in Narok. Why should poor children and mothers suffer when the Government has alternative solutions? The Petition actually indicates that the Government can always get alternative land to settle people. They do not have to punish them in the manner in which people are inhumanely evicted. If you go to Narok, for example, the situation in Mau, particularly the Narok side, there are ten schools that are closed, with almost 4,000 students being out of school. I know of many intelligent people who we went to school with and who would have been in a better position than I am. They would have been doctors, engineers, lawyers or even Senators and Governors but because of these inhumane evictions and wanton violation of human rights, it led to their inability to go to school. I urge the relevant Committee that you will assign to look into this matter, to do it with the seriousness it deserves. I challenge my senior, Hon. Tobiko, who is the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in that Ministry, that he must rise to the occasion, beyond parochial and communal interests and understand that any violation of human rights---"
}