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    "id": 1185306,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1185306/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker for giving me this opportunity to comment on the Petition that has been brought to this House through the Member of Parliament for Seme, Hon. Nyikal. We all remember the unfortunate events of December 2007 to early 2008. That is something that we need to close as a chapter in the history of this country. However, it will not be right to do so when there are Kenyans out there who have been discriminated against and have not received compensation like others. I am not saying that people who got affected in other areas got enough compensation. We must agree that loss of life can never be compensated. We must also agree that even loss of property cannot be sufficiently compensated. However, there is need for expression of good gesture. It has been done elsewhere. Those who were affected in some parts of the Rift Valley were compensated, but those from Nyanza and Western, and those who were working in Naivasha flower farms and other areas in the Rift Valley and Central Kenya, who were from the western region and were affected by the post-election violence have been forgotten up to today. They have cried for far too long. I hope the Public Petitions Committee that is going to deal with this matter will this time round find closure to this dark chapter in our history as a country, so that we can move on. I am sure Kenya is not prepared to repeat this."
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