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    "id": 1424209,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kavindu Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Agnes Kavindu Muthama",
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    "content": "done. It is not in my position. Therefore, I am asking the President and the Cabinet Secretary for Diaspora and Foreign Affairs to do what is needful. These are our people who sleep hungry and go without medication. I am requesting that what can be done locally be done. We also have the fund that was formed here in 2012 under the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. I ask the Cabinet Secretary Hon. (Prof.) Kindiki to organise this fund, so that he can also see what he can do for these victims as we wait for the Americans to compensate our people. As the Senate, we call these concerned Cabinet Secretaries here to ask them questions; why they have not been concerned about the victims who are our people and yet we are asking Americans to do what is needful. It is our right and theirs. We must do what is needful for these people, so that they can also feel like any other Kenyan. I look forward to the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Dispora Affairs and our President doing what is needed for our people. When I went to America before I came up with this Motion, I met with the lawyers and one of the victims, Caroline Muthoka. They told me whenever they try to advance and reach out to the Senate and the Congress, the lawyers are asked why they fight for them yet the Kenyan Government is quiet on this. I got so mad that I told them once I am back in Kenya, I will do a Motion and they will hear the voice of Kenya speaking and demanding what is rightfully ours. I repeat that Al Qaeda was not fighting Kenya, but America. America should take their responsibility and compensate Kenyans who are not compensated. They only compensated Kenyans were those who were working inside the American embassy, but not those in the adjacent buildings, who were passing by in buses and cars. We are talking of 6,000 people and 213 are dead. Moreover, those people are not compensated. We are asking America to be the big brother that we look upon. They should amend the law so that our people are compensated. I submit."
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