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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to also add my voice on the Statement sought by Hon. Cherarkey in support of it. If the Executive that is currently in power desires to change the status quo of this family, they can. I urge the Committee to also look for a way of convincing the administration in power to put its political will to help this family. I am saying this because there is a precedent. When the former President Daniel Arap Moi left office, there was a house he had stayed in for many years here in Nairobi City County. In the administration of the late President Mwai Kibaki, a political decision was made to surrender the house because it was like a family home. I served under the former Vice President, the late hon. Kijana Wamalwa. During the time he left us, there were issues at home. I know that under the good political will of the late Excellency President Mwai Kibaki, a very decent donation was done to assist that family. If we go back again to another very famous political figure, the late hon. Stanley Njindo Matiba; similar to the late hon. Jean Marie Seroney, he was also detained, but because of political will, a decent compensation was done to the family. We need to agree that that Committee must also seek good political will from this current administration and I believe they will get it, so that this family can be compensated. It is really bad that a man of that great standing would die of depression at the age of only 55. When you look at that history; three-and-a-half years of detention, and that Kshs1 million he had borrowed was still incurring interest. They would not waive it because he was on the political wrong-side. I urge that this Administration - I know they are"
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