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    "id": 110199,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/110199/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Kuti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Abdi Kuti",
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    "content": "Many speakers ahead of me had named people who contributed from early times to the struggle for the creation of a new Constitution. I stand here to mourn those people and areas affected by lack of a good Constitution. Due to human right practices in this country and a very powerful presidency, many marginalized communities were treated in an inhumane manner and many lost their lives. It is because of them that I stand here to support a new Constitution that will treat all Kenyans equally. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Shifta Movement treated Kenyans - those people who were in the marginalized areas like in Isiolo – in a very indiscriminate manner! A lot of people were killed; a lot of property was destroyed and up to now, communities like the people in Isiolo, especially where I was born in GarbaTulla, there is still a place called “Manyatta Prison”. It was created by a Government that just indiscriminately gathered people in a concentration camp, killed them, destroyed their property and intentionally created poverty in those communities. These communities, up to now, have been left behind by the rest of Kenyans. I hope that through the passing of this draft and the making of a new Constitution, the voices of those who are in the graves because of poor governance and an unjust Government will be, at least, remembered."
}