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    "id": 1119117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1119117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In 2011, we lost an international hero athlete called Wanjiru. To date, the case is not over. Just the other day, we lost the young girl called Agnes Tirop who was killed in a savage and crude manner of stabbing. Only cowards would kill another human being by stabbing them with a knife. The girl had just set a world record, once again putting Kenya on the international map as a home of heroes and heroines in athletics. Sen. Cherargei, please do not reduce this national heroine into a Nandi asset because she is a Kenyan heroine. We would want to see that justice is done because management of success especially at a very young age by young Kenyans probably whose levels of education are not up to university need support. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I was the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I recommended - and that recommendation remains part of Government policy - that these breakers of world records in athletics should, one, be given protocol support all the time. Two, that they be given security. If you go to Uganda that rarely wins gold medals in international events, the gold medalists automatically become national heroes. They are given security, government support and protections, 24 hours. In this country, from what we are reading here and there, this young heroine has fallen to the intrigues of malice, greed and probably poor human relations. We want to see that this comes to an end. The Government must respect the people who bring untold success to this country. When the national anthem of Kenya is played in an arena while the national anthem of a big democracy like India is never played; where the anthem of China is never played, it is a moment of great pride for this country. I would want to urge the DCI that this is one case where he should be giving update reports on investigations on a weekly basis for Kenyans to know who killed this girl and why; and what they are doing to the person who killed this girl. Even as a lawyer who defends people’s rights, these are the sort of cases where courts should re-think the quick allowance of bail to such people. When such things, happen, it discourages, it kills morale and above all, it is something that we must all denounce. Sadly, the death of this girl was announced more prominently on BBC than on any radio station in Kenya. BBC carried the death of Tirop the whole day, the next day and the third day while in Kenya, it was a meanwhile to a story. This is not right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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