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    "id": 1443104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Gen Zs do not want to kill anyone even though we are killing them. We have snipers on this building to kill our young people. They are not fighting flesh and blood, but it is about wickedness in high places; Parliament, State House, City Hall and Governors’ premises across the nation. It is wickedness in high places that the Gen Zs are fighting against. It was not the Finance Bill that was the problem. The Finance Bill was a catalyst. All these started when we decided to force on Kenyans a housing law. It is a good thing that those young people came to Parliament because we are the ones who passed the housing law and told the young people that they can go to hell if they want. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are the ones who passed a health law, which no one understands today. Those people who work for NHIF have no certainty. They do not know whether they have jobs or even a health cover, and yet, they work for the NHIF. It was this Parliament that brought about this kind of wickedness that many of our people today do not have health cover. Today, children in schools do not have health cover, something that we thought would be a constitutional guarantee. That was taken away and this Parliament kept quiet about it. The Gen Zs are fighting about the neocolonialism we are seeing today. When Kenyans are complaining about their Government, the first person to respond to us is the American Ambassador, in power-point presentations, telling us how our elections are free and fair. Telling us how our President has been sent from God and telling us that we are making the right decisions and that we should persevere. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Gen Zs are tired with that neocolonialism and double standards. Someone told me that if those protests were about the rights of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community and 39 people were dead, the western world would have frozen aid and external assistance to Kenya. Are the lives of gay people and lesbians more important than the lives of the 39 we have talked about? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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