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    "id": 227880,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/227880/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Samoei",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 204,
        "legal_name": "William Samoei Ruto",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we raised this matter eight months ago, the Government told us that we were playing politics. By then no single life had been lost. We told the Government to take up the issue of land in Mt. Elgon seriously, but they let the issue degenerate. Today, 150 Kenyans have lost their lives. I do not know what the Minister of State for Administration and National Security is doing when 50,000 Kenyans have been displaced. The Minister has sent security personnel to Mt. Elgon, not to provide security but to burn down houses, churches and bans. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you go to Mt. Elgon today, you will shed tears. Children are not only not going to school but they are sleeping without a roof over their heads, no blankets and they have nothing to eat. When humanitarian activity and personnel go to Mt. Elgon to take food and other humanitarian facilities, all the Government does is to block those people. I have on one occasion, together with Mr. Bett, other hon. Members of Parliament, accompanied by an Anglican Bishop, with food and blankets in a lorry, been denied entry in to Mt. Elgon on an account of instruction from the Minister of State for Administration and National Security. What a shame! The people of Mt. Elgon are paying for crimes they have not committed. Mr. Serut, without shame; a person who pretends---"
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