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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we adjourned when I was registering my tributes to the heros and heroines of the struggle for the second liberation. I had reached the name of Dr. Chivule Wa Tsuma. I wanted to include hon. Koigi wa Wamwere, the former Prime Minister, hon. Raila Odinga, hon. James Orengo and hon. Charles Rubia. At the end, I have deliberately put the following names in my tribute because one of them wanted to be a President, and he could have been our President in 1992, hon. Kenneth Njindo Matiba. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have also deliberately left at the end the ones who paid with their lives. I want to pay my tribute to the family of Nairobi University Student Leader, Titus Tito Adungosi, the late hon. Chelagat Mutai, the late hon. Dr. Robert Ouko and the late hon. Josiah Mwangi Kariuki. These Kenyans are dead; they are no longer with us. The truth which is sometimes unspoken is that there is a lot of deep bitterness in the country sometimes wrongly directly at institutions and communities instead of that anger being directed at the perpetrators of that particular injustice. That is to say there are people in the countryside who when they hear the mention of particular ethnic communities, they feel bitter that a hero from their own community lost his or her live because of struggling for us. We must heal this particular bitterness. The reason there is this bitterness is because people feel that they were denied justice. Justice demanded then, as it still demands now, that those whose basic human rights were violated or negated, must be compensated in favour of their memories or survivors, heirs, offsprings and families in general. Mr. Speaker, Sir, through this Motion, I seek to persuade this Senate and, therefore, the leadership of the country, that the time for healing should not be through church services and political rallies, but through decisive action by the Executive to give effect, not only to the resolution of this House, if we shall so resolve, but also to the decisions of our courts. I am talking about courts because I want to bring to the attention of this country that judges of the Republic of Kenya have been hearing these kinds of cases and they have been making determinations. Successive attorney-general’s, including the current one, all the time go to court to oppose compensation of the victims, their dependants or their families. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when the longest serving Attorney-General whose name I have forgotten was the Attorney-General of Kenya, he opposed the award to Otieno Mak’ Onyango of Kshs20 million, but it was granted. The Government of President Uhuru is yet to honour this award of Kshs20 million. Justice Lenaola sitting in the High Court in Nairobi awarded David Njau and ten others Kshs55 million. Mr. Njau and the others were awarded Kshs10 million, Kshs7 million and Kshs400,000 five times, respectively. However, this award has not been granted. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Mbewa Ndege was vehemently opposed by the then Attorney-General, but that did not stop the High Court sitting in Kisumu from awarding him Kshs12.5 million which the Government has refused to pay. The High Court sitting in Nairobi awarded Mr. Dominic Amolo Kshs2.5 million and the Government has 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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