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    "id": 106287,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/106287/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. M.M. Mahamud",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Energy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
        "slug": "mohammed-mahamud"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also want to join my colleagues in congratulating hon. Affey for bringing this important Bill. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill which was enacted in 1970 had serious ill motives. If we ask ourselves why it was enacted, the simple reason is because they wanted to reward those people who committed atrocities. Between 1963 and 1967, the areas mentioned were under a state of emergency, especially the areas in North Eastern Province. I was a young boy then and I witnessed all that happened. Atrocities were committed in the name of security. In fact, there was no police force in the province at that time. We were under some sort of military rule and the mighty of the Kenya Armed Forces was unleashed on the people of that province. You will also recall that the people who were in that province, although there were some who wanted cessation, the great number of who wanted to secede actually went to Somalia. But those who were left were the loyalists who wanted to work with the Government then. But those people are the ones who suffered the mighty of the Armed Forces and this cannot be forgiven. As if that was not enough, Parliament then, in 1970, decided to enact that law. I remember as a young boy"
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