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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "through. Some people came in crutches. They are walking in crutches up to today, without having been compensated for all those years. I know our President is going to travel to USA next week. I urge him, on behalf of this House, to tell the Americans that we are not collateral damage. We are human beings like the Americans who were working for that Government. The contractors who were working for that Government were compensated billions of shillings. If we are going to host Americans here and then we suffer because we host them, who will take responsibility? It is the government of the United States of America. Mr. Deputy Speaker, when you see what is happening today in Gaza, including the bombing that happened in Nairobi, maybe any equipment used is manufactured in America. Look at what is happening in Gaza today, one missile costs millions of shillings. If they set aside even 10 missiles, it can compensate the Kenyans fully; everybody will be paid. However, even if you pay people today, the suffering, torture and stress they went through, cannot be compensated. There is a woman who was working for a bank who lost her job because she was disabled. Earlier on, she was an abled person working for a bank and up to today, she has no earnings and she has suffered heavily. Mr. Deputy Speaker, if the President goes there, if possible, he needs to tell the Americans that was not our war. It was an American war and we are suffering because of it. Up to today, we are still losing people to Al Shabaab. Why are we losing people to Al Shabaab? We have no quarrel with anybody in Somalia or any Muslim organization. The problem is that there is an issue between the Americans and a certain Muslim community and not everybody, yet we are suffering. We have lost soldiers in Marsabit who are in Somalia. We are losing people in bombing up to 2022. Why are we having these issues? We have neighbors like Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania, whom we have no problems with. We are not fighting with them. Why are we having this issue? It is because of the double standards of the American government. If they stop using their double standards, you will see them funding countries to fight each other. They brought a problem between Iraq and Iran. They gave the same equipment, the missiles, to Iran."
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