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    "id": 937531,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Kabaka",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Boniface Mutinda Kabaka",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also support this critical Petition. Historians like the Senior Counsel, Sen. Orengo, who also served as the Minister for the Ministry of Lands, have spoken. I am also a historian and I need to add that there are two limbs regarding the land that was taken away by the white men. After the First and the Second World War, the queen sent the soldiers to East Africa with the intention of compensating them for services well rendered during the war. The problem is that the Government retained the land even after Independence. The other problem is how the independent Government distributed that land. We do appreciate that money was given by the Colonial government to the independent Government for land to be distributed equitably or for land to be given back to the Government just as it happened in Zimbabwe, but the new Government, which took over in 1963, duped Kenyans and that is why we have a problem. That Government did not compensate Kenyans and that is why we have had problems across the country. We have had problems in Mombasa; the one thousand nautical miles land issue and that problem has also been experience in Northern and Western Kenya. The problem is that certain individuals, who were powerful in the first Government took the land away from the citizens. They even enacted a law, Section 27 and 28 of the defunct Registered Land Act which was very clear and it was put there by the first Attorney-General. I do not want to mention names because I do not want to be asked to substantiate. He said that he will get the best lawyer to fight anybody who was going to touch his private land. This was a way of punishing those people who went to the bush to fight. It was also a way of creating a black bourgeoisie. They are the people"
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