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    "id": 315275,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 128,
        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
        "slug": "richard-onyonka"
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    "content": "Mr. Rajab was then buried in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, according to Islamic rites and as per the request of his uncle, a Mr. Ibrahim Ramadhan. The family of the deceased then granted power of attorney to Mr. Abdallah Ahmed Mazrui of AA Mazrui and Company Advocates of Mombasa in January, 2009 to act on their behalf and collect their monies owed to the family for disbursement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Alexander Macuka was in due course arraigned in court and prosecuted at the Sharjah Criminal Court and was found guilty of negligence for the death of Mr. Rajab. He was released after paying a fine of 6,000 Dirhams, which was US$1,644 and blood money, which was a total of 200,000 Dirhams, which was US$54,794 as compensation to the family of the deceased through the Sharjah Court. The blood money was then deposited on 3rd August, 2009 and is in the custody of the Sharjah Courts awaiting collection by the family. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the White Sea Shipping and Supply Company after that informed the Kenyan Embassy in the United Arab Emirates that they had released information about the blood money to the deceased family. On 11th August, 2010 when the Kenyan Mission in the UAE made a follow up inquiry on the matter to the White Sea Shipping and Supply Company, they were informed that a Mr. Rashid Mazrui, who claimed to be the deceased’s uncle, had been given the contact of AA Mazrui and Company Advocates in Mombasa and the wife and family of the deceased were in touch with the advocate. Finally, on 12th June, 2012 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote a letter to AA Mazrui and Company Advocates inquiring whether they had received compensation on behalf of the family. Mr. Mazrui, who is an advocate to the company, responded in a letter dated 19th July, 2012 which we received in the Ministry on 26th July, 2012 stating that he would be grateful for the Ministry to assist in enabling him to collect the money from Sharjah Courts, so that he could transmit it to the family. The Ministry subsequently communicated with AA Mazrui and Company Advocates on telephone to inquire on the difficulties they were facing. We found that the process had reached a stage where the"
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