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    "id": 915969,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "disappointed if time lapses before the Petition is presented in this House and they are not given a chance to be heard. Secondly, the issue of historical land injustice, more or less, seems to fall within the purview of Article 67(2)(e) of the Constitution of Kenya, which donates those powers to the NLC. I am sure, and all of us know, that the outgoing NLC has not lived up to its mandate. I urge the Committee of the House in charge of land and related matters that, as they seek to constitute a new NLC, special attention needs to paid on the integrity, professionalism and commitment of the new commissioners. Lastly, looking at historical land injustices in this country we will, more or less, be rewriting the history of this country. We must look at it very carefully because even us, where we come from, have claims of our people extending all the way to eastern Uganda. So, we could make that claim to extend that far. I have read all over about the Maasai Community claims. It claims that all the land in Kenya belongs to the Maasai Community. So, we must be very careful on how we deal with this matter. We have a lot of reference materials. There is the TJRC Report, the Njonjo Commission Report and the Ndung’u Report. There are quite a number of reference materials. I would urge the Committee to use those materials as a reference point so that we start rewriting - if we so wish - the history of this country. But, most importantly, I would wish to hear the report of the committee in respect to that Petition because it will be precedent-setting and it will form very good academic material for research and teaching at the university. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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