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    "id": 407579,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/407579/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "It is important to note that the people responsible for occasioning pain and suffering to fellow Kenyans were not just ordinary people. Those who bear the greatest responsibility for the injustices that Kenyans have suffered in various parts of this country for all these years are not small people but are big people. This Commission was a bold step towards addressing this very serious matter. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Act deliberately ring-fenced the Report of the Commission against any possible mitigation or interference and that was the reason. It was clear that if the Commission was going to undertake its mandate and do its work in the right manner, it was bound to name names of powerful individuals – it was bound to name people who had been untouchable for very many years. It was bound to unmask the faces behind some of the worst atrocities ever committed in this country like the Wagalla Massacre and the murders of J.M. Kariuki, Tom Mboya, Robert Ouko and so on. It was to unmask the names of people who had grabbed public land in this country, the people who had been responsible for tribal clashes in this country way back from 1992. That is exactly what this Commission did within its mandate as per the original Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Act."
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