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    "id": 1335530,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1335530/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I stand to support this Petition. We are a former colony. We are a Republic but not a monarchy. These people were entrusted with our welfare. They ended up using the collective guilt in those days of colonisation—the Mau Mau rebellion, my clan’s war with the British, and all the destruction that was done to us. We entrusted them with our future. They grabbed big tracts of land; millions of acres. We were paying them a lot of pension. They do not pay taxes today, which is wrong. The French Revolution came about because of the privileged and nobility. Our independence has no value or meaning. There are people who struggled like the Mau Mau who fought colonialists and slavery. When they wanted to take slaves from here, Koitalel Arap Samoei, the Waiyaki family, my family and Somalis of Kenya fought them. They were not able to do slavery here and in the Horn of Africa. That is why we are an egalitarian Republic that essentially is supposed to take care of everybody. We claim we have a hustler Government and economy, yet we have privileged people out there who do not pay any tax. We exchanged the white settlers and nobility, and the Queen and King of England with our African monarchs, at least in practice, even if it is not there in names and titles."
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