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    "id": 1106161,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1106161/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nyaribari Chache, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Richard Tong’i",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for considering the face of Kenya on this Petition. You have looked at it broadly, which is a good way to capture the feelings and the mood of the country on matters violence. I agree with my colleagues who have spoken ahead of me. The violence that has been meted on innocent people over the years is completely unacceptable. It was not necessary because I know the petitioner had done nothing to deserve what he got as a family or the damage they suffered as a family. I can relate with this because we lost our properties in Kisumu during the post-election violence. That was unacceptable and uncalled for. Innocent people had gone out there to do business. Some people who had invested their pension watched it go up in flames in the name of politics. Some of these people were supporters of the party then. This needs to be condemned in the strongest terms possible. It should never happen again. This brings to mind the fact that there are people who have not been compensated following the post-election violence. Majority of those who deserve to be compensated have not been given a penny to date. The principle of indolence does not set in where innocent people have suffered criminal activities like this one. Notwithstanding the time that has lapsed in between, they deserve to be heard. They deserve to be compensated and comforted in whichever way we can as a country as a way of encouraging and telling people that this should not happen to anybody else. More importantly, violence does not define who we are as a country. We are better off than what we have done. Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I support the Petition, I hope we will consider members of the Kisii community who lost their properties during the post-election violence."
}