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    "id": 587366,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "September 30, 2015 SENATE DEBATES 20 Sen. Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have just one little point but it is a very pregnant point; not because of the gender of the Chair but the little point is very pregnant. There is this constant idea that comes from the Jubilee Government that, forget the past and let us get on building the nation. This is a very odd idea because the constitutional basis of this document that we proclaimed on 10th August, 2010, was based on remembering the past. In Article 9 of the Constitution, there are three days national holidays; one of them is that of Madaraka Day to be observed on the 1st of June. Madaraka Day came before the Chair and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) were born. We cannot remember the 1st of June, 1963 if we go by this statement of forgetting the past. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the preamble to this constitutional document, why we said that: “we the people of Kenya” is based on the injustices of the past for which some people had to struggle and shed blood so that we can have our freedom. I want to plead with the Chair that when he goes back to the CS, he should tell the CS and the Government that there is no way we will forget the past. Even President Kenyatta himself said that we shall forgive but we shall never forget. If you remember the past, we could probably deal with the teacher’s problems a little better because we keep on forgetting. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine was on the little void that we should never forget the past; otherwise the future will be very bleak."
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