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    "id": 1424178,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "After the incident, the Government took measures to fight terrorism, such as establishing an Anti-Terrorism Unit. I entirely agree with the Committee's recommendation. We have passed the Prevention of Terrorism Act. We already have a Victims' Compensation Fund that should be operationalized to ensure the victims of the bomb blast are compensated. This is the least we can do. They have lost their loved ones, spouses, and children. There is a mother in Kaplelemet in Nandi Hills who cries daily because of the loss of his son. As the President visits the USA for bilateral engagement, I challenge the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi, to ensure, in his diary, that as the President engages, other stakeholders, including President Joe Biden, to puts this agenda as part of the engagement. Ambassador Meg Whitman has also been supportive. I request, through your office, for the Clerk to provide a certified copy of this report to the office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary, Hon. Musalia Mudavadi. The USA does not have a problem in compensating Kenyans who lost their loved ones and others who got injured. We should engage the USA in bilateral talks. The issue of compensation for victims of terror is not new. The USA was paid more than USD335 million by the Government of Sudan the other day over the terror attacks of 2000 and the killing of the USA citizens in 2008. Mr. Deputy Speaker, you remember the famous air crash. I know by that time you were alive. There was a terror attack on Lockerbie, Scotland, involving the Pan Am Flight 103 that was brought down. At that time, the Libyan Government---"
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