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    "id": 734486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this petition, from the very onset. I know where this community lives in Kericho County. If you happen to visit where they reside, you will truly sympathise with their situation especially given their history. The only mistake they committed is that its leadership was made up of brave men and women who took on the Britons. The punishment they got was seclusion by being pushed aside, their land taken away and their patriots killed. Some of them who are listed in the petition have never been buried up to date. If you wonder why perpetrators of injustice in this country continue to do it with so much vigor and earnest, it is because they find themselves in good company. If past perpetrators and people who have trampled upon the human rights of others have never been brought to book, why should they be afraid? When you read the history of this country well, you find that communities like the Talai who we are discussing this afternoon have never been compensated or even received a formal apology or even the word “sorry” from the government, then you realise that we are indeed living in difficult times. Little wonder that we no longer have heroes; men and women who stand up to injustices and negative vices in society. It is not just in terms of how you treat communities but even people who carry out little acts that saves this country. I keep on reflecting about Munyenkei who was the whistleblower on Goldenberg and how he died a very poor man despite what he had saved us as a country. It is high time we reflected as a country and questioned ourselves deeply on whether this is how we want to continue treating our heroes or we want to leave a better society. Thank you."
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