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    "id": 106289,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/106289/?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": "Up to today, the very law is being used to justify any action done in that part of the country. Emergency laws are bad. This country has had experience from what happened during the struggle for Independence; the Mau Mau war. If we remember that one, then there is no difference between that and what happened in North Eastern Province. What happened there is a very serious matter. Quite a number of Kenyans do not know that we were blocked out then. I remember those days people were not allowed to listen to radios. They were even blocked out of news and the rest of Kenyans were not able to access information in that area. Since the enactment of that law, which we are now seeking to repeal, other crimes have been committed. We hear about the Wagalla Massacre, Garrissa, Malkamari and even those areas which Kenyans do not know about. Under this Act, institutions of indemnity were strengthened, intimidation was the order of the day and people in the provincial administration and the police were seen as oppressors. Today, quite a number of people in that region still fear the Government. Nobody seems to trust anybody who works in the Government, especially the armed forces and it is because of this law."
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