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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Tobiko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Motion, including the formation of the ad hoc Committee. First, I congratulate our sister, Sen. Kavindu Muthama, for being the initiator of this Motion. I also congratulate the people of Machakos County for electing this good lady to represent them here, because she has gone beyond the borders of Machakos County to represent all Kenyans. This is why it is important that women get elected because besides just being a Senator, she has put the human face on this whole issue. The bomb blast affected many families. As I was sitting at the back bench with Sen. Okenyuri, I was trying to imagine how old she was then at that time. She must have been a toddler. I was three months into the marriage. I had just gotten married in May of that year. My husband was working at the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK). I had just walked across the road to go to the General Post Office (GPO) when I saw the smoke. I thought it was the CBK that had exploded and I thought my life had ended. Just three months into marriage and now here I was. The whole place was smoky. I could not tell the difference. By that time, the whole place was smoky, there were rubbles and all that. Many people died even on the road. It was traumatizing. I watched it happening from a distance. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is unfortunate that to date, our people have not been compensated. Sen. Mungatana, MGH, was giving a description of what really transpired that day. What if the guards did not block this truck that was meant to go under the American Embassy Building? Not that I would have wished the Americans to die, but the casualties on our people may have been less. Why am I saying this? America is our big brother, the world superpower and the police of every other nation. Their conscience should be pricked that our people died on their behalf. We did not know what caused our people to die. They died because of being friends with America. The conscience of the American people and the American Government should be pricked and know that people died for a course that we could never tell. Families are agonising. Besides those who got injured for life, we have people whose lives have become miserable since then. It is sad that we are still talking about the American Bomb Blast to date without compensation for our people whose names have just been inscribed on a stone somewhere where the American Embassy used to be. This should be concluded. America must listen. Our people should receive what is duly theirs. Whatever compensation they receive; they will never really be able to bring their lives back to what it was. It will not raise the dead for those who passed on. Those who lost their loved ones will never see them. Those who got physically injured will remain maimed for life. People’s lives have been affected forever. Madam Temporary Speaker, I pray that the American nation is listening and that the American Government will be touched. I pray that this will be brought to a conclusion. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity."
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