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    "content": "Sossion. I want to tell him Go! Go! Go! I find in him good company because when I also try to raise national issues sometimes, the heat is turned on me. You remember that when I raised the issue of the Karen land saga, it landed me in the High Court. You will also remember that because I raised the plight of the farmers of Mumias, I am in the High Court today. Mr. Sossion is in good company and Kenyans are watching. One day, even if we do not complete the journey, posterity will judge us well when people will be enjoying what we are fighting for. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some people think that this is a joke, simply because many people do not like reading. I advise them to go and read the autobiography of President John Adams, who was the third President of the USA. Of all the things that he believed in and wrote, the greatest he said is that, his biggest fear was: “will posterity know how much his generation sacrificed for the freedoms that they would enjoy?” I hope that the sacrifices we are making today, Mr. Sossion included, posterity will remember that men and women fought for it. My last point is on the issue of giving hope to the people of north eastern region. This is because they live under curfews and fear that walls are going to be put up and that means that the Kenyan Somalis cannot allow their goats and camels to graze across the border. If you were to bring such a joke in western region, we would kill you; that you put a wall between Kenya and Uganda. What would I do with my relatives who are just across River Lwakhakha on the other side of Uganda? They are just as Luhyas as we who are in Kenya. I believe that the Somalis of Kenya are just as Somalis as their relative on the other side. The Government should stop joking and give us security. The hope that I give them is that, the fourth coming Government of the sons and daughters of the change movement in this country will build more schools in the north The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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