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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sure that even the people who are fighting to recover the land are not the people who sold the land to the evicted families. I agree with Gov. Sang that this is not the moment to inflame ethnic passions. This is not the moment to go to the scene of crime to start asking where so and so is. We can solve these problems without going to the scene. I urge the Senate Majority Leader, who is seated here, and appears to be agreeing with what I am saying, that he should take up this matter. We have witnessed brutal evictions in the Mau, and many other parts of the country. Evictions are now being visited on an area that is not even a gazetted forest or a water catchment area that is being protected. Somebody, sitting in an office in Nairobi, is exercising raw power and authority by unleashing terror on innocent ordinary people in this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must condemn the eviction in the strongest terms possible, and urge Kenyans that we have lost enough lives through ethnic passion in the past. For example, violence was witnessed in Chepsonoi in 1998, and in Kapkangani in 1993. Ethnic violence has also been witnessed in Mt. Elgon, Trans Nzoia, Eldoret and many other places in the past. This is the time to heal this country. Anybody in the public office who is running contrary to the spirit of healing this country of the ethnic fault lines that we have created through bad politics, must be condemned and driven out of office, if found culpable. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I sympathize with the families that were affected by the evictions. The Senate Majority Leader must take it upon himself, on behalf of this House, to urge the national Government to compensate the affected families adequately, provide immediate housing, make sure that the children sit for the national examinations, and that they are given protection form the marauding State agencies that have got no feelings about how Kenyans should live. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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