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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me also support this Motion by hon. Wangamati. Its object is to appreciate the fact that many Kenyans were involved in the Mau Mau Movement and the compensation which has been agreed is only targeting a small number. We all agree that very many people were involved in the Mau Mau Movement in this country. In Kitui Central Constituency, we have a group that calls itself Mau Mau, which has 38 members who actively participated in the Movement. They are quite elderly and you can see from their faces the level to which poverty has taken them. I support this Motion. All the Kenyans who were involved in liberating this country must be recognised and compensated, if there is any compensation at all. The fact that only a few of them are benefiting is very unfair to the rest of the Kenyans who participated in the struggle. We need to appreciate and acknowledge the people who participated in this important movement and made us attain our Independence. As a result of that, we can sit in this Chamber and contribute to national building. We have no choice. We need to come up with a mechanism and agree on specific measures, so that anybody who participated or a family which was involved, for instance their parents were actively involved, can benefit. We need to come up with a register, so that instead of having a few of them being compensated, all the Kenyans who participated are considered and they benefit from this important Motion. As a House, we need to support this Motion. After we pass it, it is important that the Implementation Committee, which to some extent has not been very active, takes up these important resolutions and make sure that they are implemented. We need to support this Motion and I urge my fellow Members of Parliament to fully support it so that Kenyans who are not in the list of those to be compensated by the Britons will also benefit. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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