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    "id": 937527,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/937527/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wish to support this Petition and make a brief comment by saying that one of the biggest failures of the National Land Commission (NLC) is on historical land injustices. Under the Constitution, there is a specific mandate given to the NLC to address issues of historical and current land injustices. This is one of the areas that the NLC has failed to address. When it comes to the question of the Kipsigis community, I am familiar that apart from the Nandi, Kipsigis, Kikuyu and probably some of the communities at the coast, these four communities really suffered out of displacement with regard to colonialism in Kenya. Of course, I forgot the Maasai community. They lost a lot of land. In fact, if you trace how the Maasai were moved from areas as far as Nanyuki and corridors created from Trans-Nzoia, those injustices need to be addressed. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a clan within the Nandi called the Talai, and some of them are found in Kipsigis. This community really suffered under colonialism. Some of them were shipped to Gwassi. I have met some of them who speak Luo more fluently than I do, yet they are from the Kalenjin community. When you go to Gwassi and talk to some of them who were living in villages - little ghettos in Kericho - if you speak to them about independence, it does not ring a bell because they were removed from their land by the Colonial government. Now, 50 years after the end of colonialism, they are still suffering. I support this Petition, but hope that the report by the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) will become public so that we get mechanisms of resolving this problem. Something needs to be done, immediately. If the Jubilee Government cannot do this, I suggest that Sen. Cherargei brings a Bill that will change categories of public land so that those that are placed under the national Government can be placed under the county governments. Hopefully, they will not be managed by the governors because we cannot trust any governor with even a quarter acre of land because of the things that we have seen happening in Nairobi and other urban areas. In fact, it is worse in the cities and major towns. Some of those tea estates in Kericho own acres and acres of land and the communities have been pushed into tiny pieces of land which is actually part of the problem in Mau. The truth about Mau is that a lot of people were squeezed out of their land and pushed into the forest. We need to find a solution instead of politicizing,"
}