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    "id": 331539,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose the extension of the term of this particular Commission for the reason that the TJRC was not an afterthought. It is one of the Commissions that were established after the considered opinions of a team that represented all of us during the Serena Talks. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we allow this Commission’s tenure to be extended, we run the risk of it meeting the same fate as did the Ndung’u Commission which looked into the land injustices in this country. The same risk that befell the Kiliku Commission on Tribal Clashes will befall this one. The same fate befell the Commission by Justice Cockar that looked into the sale of the Grand Regency Hotel. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with all due respect, the Members of this House have a lot of emphasis on the issue of the post-election violence, but I know that an even greater injustice was visited on the people of Kenya through the unjustifiable acquisition of wealth. We have people in this country, high and mighty, who brag every day, and almost block our ears with their helicopters, yet they got the money, the wealth they have accumulated, from public resources. That opened up a big gap between the haves and have-nots; this has resulted in an elite club of multi-billionaires, who today can buy anything. I beg my brother, hon. Midiwo, to bear with me, as this includes impunity. What justification is there if 48 members of the disciplined forces, our officers, husbands, fathers, people on whom hundreds of people depend, can perish and then that gives us, politicians, an opportunity to ask them “ mta do?” You do not even honour summons to go and say what you know on record at the CID Headquarters. You do not even bother to respect yourself by standing by the truth you uttered with your own very mouth. I do not want to anticipate debate, but the least thing I can say is that I am expecting the President and the Prime Minister to fly the national flag half mast, so that Kenyans can know that even when small policemen are murdered, they are as important to the nation as when one big politician dies for whom we fly it at half mast. The least we can say is that the Minister who uttered these words has lost confidence of his Government and he should resign if only we can allow those people to wipe their tears. The intention of the TJRC report was to try and have a situation where it would inform the forthcoming elections. Indeed, if the elections of 2013 were held at a time when Kenyans have read this report, then they would know that this is a standard that"
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