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    "id": 106320,
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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "38 Thursday, 8th April, 2010(P) am speaking. That is just because it is just a minute to the County Council of Garissa town and the municipality is just nearby where the people of North Eastern can get access to get permission to do their development initiatives along the boundary. This has not only created the discrimination we are talking about. If you look at the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, it laid a policy where the resources of this country were to be distributed only to the high potential areas. All investments we generate as a country, all the money we generate, is to be allocated to a particular zone where development is taken and other places are neglected. There are many things over which the people of North Eastern, Upper Eastern, Lamu and other places have a bone to pick with the system. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), its mandate is supposed to go back as far as 1963, to look at all the historical injustices that have been committed. However, because of the existence of the Indemnity Act, they are unable to exercise their mandate. This is the case and yet we are saying that we are in the reform era, we are trying to redefine ourselves as a country and we are trying to look at ourselves as a fresh Kenya. We want to look at all the historical injustices, sit around a table and forgive each other so that we can move together as a country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we cannot forgive each other and look at ourselves as Kenyans--- We have a law that is discriminative that states that between 1963 and 1967, whatever injustice that was committed, nobody can talk about it. If we considered that, then we will not be able to redefine or reform ourselves. We will also not be able to look at ourselves as Kenyans. As the Tenth Parliament, we want to change the history of this country. We want to go to the records of history and change the historical injustices that have taken place in this country. We want to look at ourselves as Kenyans. We want to be a just society that can look at and support each other and say, “We are Kenyans”. If you look at the proposed Constitution, you will find that it tells us that in the preamble. It starts with appreciating us by stating, “We, the people of Kenya”. This is what I want to see in this country. I want to be looked at as a Kenyan and not as a person from northern Kenya who cannot contribute anything apart from being a violent person. History has wrongly shown this country that any person from the northern frontier districts is a violent person. This Act that we intend to repeal portrays us as violent people. We want to tell Kenyans that we are not violent. We want to contribute effectively to this country. We want to give this country meaningful development. Any person who commits crime must face justice. We do not want to be punished collectively because my brother has committed an offence. That is wrong and it is one thing we are refusing. We have been given collective punishment for a long time. It is high time we stopped that. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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