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    "id": 33172,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chachu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, along the Kenya-Ethiopian border, we have had several massacres. In my own lifetime, I know of Elbeso, Turbi and Kokai massacres. One of them in particular the Elbeso massacre comes to my mind in a very special way. I remember it was in 1984. I was in Class Seven and in the morning, I witinessed a massacre of 50 families, and two of them were my own cousins; a whole family – the parents and the five children - were wiped out. When these massacres occur, even the media reports them as “50 persons or cattle rustlers were killed or 50 Gabbras or Turkanas were killed”. We are not even given the right to be referred to as Kenyans who have been killed. When these massacres occur, there is no commission or authority to really take this Government to task and make it accountable for the lives of those Kenyans who have been massacred, mostly by foreigners largely, in my case, from Ethiopia. I strongly believe that once this Commission is in place and does its job as mandated by the Constitution, and as a constitutional commission, it will be able to take the Government to task and ensure that the lives and livelihoods of Kenyans are protected."
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