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    "id": 1239354,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "against our country. It is not the only attack of this magnitude that has happened in Kenya. It is not really fair, that year in, year out, people come to visit the 1998 Bomb Blast Memorial Park. Every time we get a leader from the USA and other places, they come to visit the memorial park. When shall we speak about the victims? When shall we speak about the survivors? When shall we speak about those who died? We cannot just keep lamenting every day. We cannot just keep saying that a bomb blast happened. Yes, it happened. Out of it, 12 Americans and 213 Kenyans died, and 5000 people were affected. If we cannot speak about them, then there is no point in doing the memorials every year. The memorials are painful for the victims. Imagine, a person who lost their sight, a person who lost their limbs, a person who cannot walk switching on their TV to hear of the memorial and the Government has never done anything about them. Nobody has ever spoken anything about you and when you switch on your TV, you see that an American Senator, envoy or Vice President, is visiting the memorial park of the 1998 bomb blast. How will it make you feel? The time to speak about those victims is now. Not next year, not in the next election, not in the next Senate and definitely not in the next government. It can only be done now and by us. I support this Motion with everything that I own, everything that I have and everything that would add weight to this matter. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to belabour this point, but if we want to prove to those who have attacked our country year-in, year-out, we must take care of the victims. Today, in my considered opinion, it is a very big day for the women of this country. In my short life in politics, I have not seen women rise as high as I have seen today. That a woman from your county, the Hon. Sabina Chege, is now a party leader. This is something that we cannot just keep quiet about. That is a major win for the women of this country. I would want to congratulate the Jubilee Party. Out of the many parties that we have, Jubilee Party has found it necessary to have a woman in the highest decision-making position of the party. It is such a good step that we are now putting in new blood to replace the retired President. We are now injecting the spirit of women. Women have been known to multi- task on many things. I am sure the kind of struggle that was there in Jubilee when they had the former party leader, will come to an end naturally because a woman is now at the top. I congratulate Hon. Sabina Wanjiru Chege, the new party leader of the Jubilee Party. I feel that the women of this country should celebrate. Thank you very much."
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