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    "id": 1151723,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Again, I am a very excited person today because even as Hon. Ali Rasso was making his contribution, he reminded me of my own connections to the military. He talked of a ship that was destroyed in 1942 and I know that on 12th February 1944, a ship sailed from Mombasa to Maldives on the way to Colombo, Sri Lanka. This ship was carrying 1,511 passengers on board including about 1,000 Africans who had just been taken from the Kings African Rifles. The ship was called the Khedive Ismail. This ship was torpedoed by the Japanese at 2.30 p.m. I am quoting those details because they were written by my father who was one of the 207 survivors out of the 1,511 who were on that ship. He proceeded to fight in Burma and India and later came back. If he would not have survived, I would not be here or I would be here in a different form. Courtesy of my mother, we probably would have moved on to somewhere else. There he was and she waited for him to come back from the war and got married after the war and started a family. There are several stories he used to tell us about service in the army. He passed on in 2011; God rest his soul in peace. My respect for people in the military started from that point. When I was told to move this Bill by the people in the forces and also those who had been calling, they were like they would get this Bill passed before we go on recess. I am so glad today we are at a point we have moved it and I am not reply. I hope by next week or the week thereafter, we should have this Bill finally processed and on its way to His Excellency, the President for assent so that the 12th Parliament can give this group of Kenyans the protection they need and motivation to serve this country knowing that even when they retire their country will take care of them as much as they have taken care of the country."
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