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    "id": 131083,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/131083/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "In this region, where we have AMANI Forum, the main problem is war and conflict between people. We know what happened in Rwanda and Burundi. We know what has happened in Southern Sudan and Uganda. Lastly, in Kenya which was an island of peace, we saw what happened in 2007. I do not think there is anything more important for us, as leaders, and Parliament, than a forum like this where we can have a chance to preach peace. I attended the burial of Kiambaa Church victims. It was a very sad affair. Any leader in this region who has witnessed what violence can do should be supportive of any initiative for peace. I stand here to support the AMANI Forum as a step towards preaching and maintaining peace in this country. We need also to be practical when we talk about peace. We have people who suffered in this country. I want to say that I think peace is going to be evasive until we can try to reinstate the living conditions of those people. It is not easy to preach peace to somebody who has not had a meal on his table. It is not easy to preach peace to somebody whose house was burnt and he is living outside. So, I call upon this Government, when we are preaching peace, to go a step forward and be practical about peace and not to subject the ordinary people to the impossibility of accepting under conditions that are impossible."
}