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    "id": 1153129,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1153129/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "We have many great leaders who suffered for this country. For people like J.M. Kariuki, we remember them when it is necessary in an occasion or when we want to politicise his life for our own good. We have families of people like Hon. George Anyona who really suffered. There was also Hon. Philomena Chelagat Mutai who was in Parliament when it was difficult to say the kind of things she used to say. No Kenyan would ever remember her. Not even in the corridors of Parliament here would you see a picture of Hon. Chelagat because we forget. At least if you go to the courts, thanks to CJ Willy Mutunga, you will see a bit of the history of this country and not just about the Judiciary. If you got to what used to be dungeons in the Supreme Court, where many of us were taken before, you will see events, photographs and paintings of people who contributed to making Kenya a democratic nation. I am hoping that as we remember President Kibaki, one of these days we could probably have a hall of fame here to remember the Argwings Kodheks of this world, a great barrister. Who remembers Argwings Kodhek? In Parliaments all over the world, people like those are remembered, but here the only thing is partly colonial history. You see pictures of people who were Speakers here and I am not talking about Speaker Lusaka. Speakers are not by themselves the Parliament. Parliament is us and everybody."
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