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    "id": 289335,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said that I belong to the first category of people and I said that we sit down and dialogue and talk. That is why we are organizing a forum where we are going to invite all various sections of the society in the Coast to come and air their grievances so that it can be recorded and then action taken. The time for rhetoric and talk is over and, therefore, I want the hon. Member to know that we are not saying this because it is campaign time. It is something that we are saying out of conviction, that, yes, these people have suffered. First there was injustice which was committed by the Arab landlords and that is why in those days of Mwambao, the coastal people were squatters. After that, the post-Independent regimes have continued to perpetuate the injustice which had been meted against these people by the colonial regimes. That is why we find people living in their ancestral land; the land where their great great grandfathers were buried and they are told: Gema mnazi halafu ukaweke kawe kilalo, but you cannot cut the tree because the land is not yours. It is very painful indeed and these are issues that we must deal with because other people have come and taken over from the Arab landlords. So we have continued to perpetuate the very same kind of injustices meted by the colonialists against these people by our own people. So, I have said that if you are part of that problem, you cannot be part of the solution. I want to say that I am part of the solution to that problem."
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