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    "id": 396755,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mositet",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Korinko Mositet",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion by the Professor. I may not have much to say because our elderly Senator has already spoken and I may be diluting what he has already said. However, if you look back in order to find out who these wazees are, you will see that these are people who used to bring back sanity whenever people went out of order. These are people who were associated so much with God that they were more holy that the average person. They would even mediate between quarrelling families. In our culture, this is respected very much. If you go out of this country and say that you are a Maasai, you may just be selling Kenya. However, we have something that has not been well documented. The Senator from Kitale knows it. In our community, when people fight and somebody dies, we have a way or resolving it. There is a culture that they follow and the two families are reconciled. The person who has killed someone is fined and things return to normal between the two families as if nothing had happened. A son or a daughter of a person who was killed can end up getting married to the other party. That is something I know. In law, we take somebody to court, the verdict is read and the person is hanged. What happens to the other family? Those families will never be together. We should follow the traditions of our wazees which were very good in maintaining peace and making sure that the families go back together. Suppose we did not have these wazees in the villages? How many courts would we be having in this country? How many magistrates would be employed and how many support clerks of the courts would be there? All that work is done by those wazees . The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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