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    "id": 1129817,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "My political witch-hunt was fomented due to my clamor for equal opportunity for all Kenyans. This was born of my long struggle to represent the voiceless and underprivileged Kenyans on this Floor and outside the Chambers of this august House. This realization is occasioned to me like a eureka moment that no matter how I fought for them to be included in society, their inclusion will only be token as long as equal opportunity for all citizens was not realized. These calls upon all of us from our different walks of life to keep eternal vigilance; to rise up and speak when such is infringed for inequality somewhere is inequality everywhere. Likewise, freedom somewhere is freedom everywhere. When we claim our freedom and equality, those who are used to privilege see this as oppression. We need to remind them that equality for all guarantees a safer environment for them, as well as one does not have to look over their shoulder, depending on who wields power. As I said before, my being here today is unlikely. I was born nearly 40 years ago in Kiambu District Hospital to a single mother who was abandoned on account of having a child who looked different on account of Albinism. Yet, I had a dream that one day I will become a respectable member of the society. My mother worked as a farm hand in our local Member of Parliament’s shamba, laying me down to sleep under a banana tree as she tilled the land with other women and men. When I was young, I had a dream that I will be a Member of Parliament. Many found this unachievable but I stand here today being the first person with Albinism to serve both in the National Assembly and the Senate. I thank God for that. To some, this opportunity to participate in decision making on an equal basis with others means the typical stereotype of the underprivileged must subsist. We must remain meek, grateful, apologetic and reconciled to gratitude occasioned by the very opportunity to serve."
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