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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicher",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, there are families that their children were left without parents because of that attack, to the extent that these children were left without a parent or even in some case two parents gone. They will experience a life time of poverty. They are most likely to die without ever getting education, employed or having a possibility of owning property. In some cases, people were maimed in these terror attacks. It is so inhuman to see that they have lived with these scars for so long. We are talking about 1998. I know of it, personally. In an unrelated matter, I lost my own mother in 2003. I know the trauma that comes with losing a mother to the extent that when I was still in primary school, I was forced to drop out of school, to try my own life. I struggled in the backstreets of Migori Town until I ended up finding myself in Nairobi. I ended up being supported by other families that gave me a chance. In total, I was adopted by seven families, so that I could be able to get education. That is why today, I bear a name of the two most confronting and rival tribes. I bear the name Oketch and Gicheru because a Gicheru did not see any tribe, but a talent in me and, therefore, supported me to go to school. I can imagine of somebody like me, who was not a victim of war or conflict, but had to struggle to find a basis or compass direction in life. What about those that lost their parents in the dust of this terror attack? Madam Temporary Speaker, up and above the economic emptiness and medical problems that they have experienced, the trauma is unbearable. Sometimes it is not clean and clear in the minds of people who are sitting way overseas. However, this is an issue of humanity, human dignity and morality. This is when the USA, a country that prides itself as the land of the free and brave should self-examine and be able to think about these families, not as Kenyans or Africans, but these families as one human family; one race of humanity. They should be able to work with the Government of Kenya to ensure that these families are not only compensated, but are supported to find a bearing in their lives. They should be supported to be able to dream and build families that have got meaning. Madam Temporary Speaker, in any case, as I finish, we do know that under the United States (US) Department of Justice, the funds that are always collected to support efforts to assist people who have been affected by this kind of terror attacks are usually fines and money that are raised by the general population of the USA. These funds are sometimes proceeds of violation of International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It means that it is the people of US that are putting together these funds to respond to those who have unfortunate been to experience deaths, or even loss of property and health, which they did not plan. Madam Temporary Speaker, I urge the US Government and the Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs of our country, that this is not a matter that we should confront each other with. This is a matter that the US should look at it as an issue of human dignity. No family ever signed to work in the borders within the US Embassy or planned to be in these attacks. In any case, the people who were innocently going about their"
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