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    "id": 1036703,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1036703/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Kshs10,000 was being given to 471 victims, not beneficiaries, then 692 victims were given Kshs50,000, this shows discrimination. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to agree with Sen. Wetangula that a proper inquiry needs to be made. Even as we look at the BBI, some of these wounds of the past need to be looked at in a restorative approach and not in a retributive manner. We must give these people justice. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you walk around in some parts of this country, and someone can still see that what happened to them was not taken seriously yet other people were compensated, they still hold and harbour hate in their hearts. Quiet is not the presence of peace, or the absence of war is not the presence of peace. Many people, deep down in their hearts, are still hurting because of the different kinds of treatment that they received when it came to compensation. I remember back then when I was chairing a party, one of the county commissioners told us that he gathered people from an IDP camp who said that they had been displaced, put them in a lorry around Eldoret and asked them to point out where they used to live because they wanted Kshs400,000 for compensation. He said that 90 per cent of them could not remember where they used to stay or where their farms were because they were traumatized. Many of these people were not even displaced, but they were renting and et"
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