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"speaker_name": "Dr. Kosgei",
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"content": "land in Athi River, which I never got. Somebody else got a title deed and sold the land. Really, if you want to say that Mr. Kiplagat killed Ouko or he was involved, you have to be more serious. That family would not have kept him as its trustee. All of us have attended funerals. We know that, once the person is buried, everybody says: â Tutarudi ! We will come back to look after you.â It is only Mr. Kiplagat who went back to the Oukoâs family to look after them. Is that the kind of person you want to say participated in some murder? Could he individually have come up with Wagalla Massacre? Are we told whether he went there to kill anyone? These things are very painful. He cannot obviously speak well enough for himself, but those who are determined that they must crucify him by innuendos will go and solicitate help from people who are getting information third hand and bring them to Kenya to say: Let him go! When shall we appoint people and stand by them? We, as a country, especially in this House, need to be a little bit truthful. If there is something that somebody has done, then that person should be asked to address it when it is spelt out properly. We should not wake up one day and say he did something in Somalia. We all know Ambassador Kiplagat, outside and inside the Government, always worked for peace. He came into diplomacy from NCCK and peace in Southern Sudan, to which he devoted a lot of his life. Let somebody ask those people who run Southern Sudan today and he or she will be told the same thing. I heard someone the other day accusing him of having done something unlikeable in Mozambique. Amb. Kiplagat was one of the people who tried really hard to bring to an end the war in Mozambique. So, if you do not like somebody, please, just say, âI do not like him.â Do not accuse somebody of something that is obviously untrue, because there are those of us who have worked with him and know him and can say from firsthand, âthis much I know is true.â"
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