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    "id": 423548,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. While I support the amendment in totality, I would like to draw the parallelism of this situation to America. When America became independent on Tuesday, 4th July, 1776, everybody was very happy to see it happen. Several years later, there was an attempt to divide America into two; the Southern confederacy and the Northern confederacy. That was the beginning of the civil war that took place after that. What followed after that is what created the human rights and that is what we see in Montgomery and Alabama. This Motion is seeking to make sure that those who fought for the decent upbringing of a country like America and Kenya should be respected. Those are the names we have already cited here; the likes of Martin Shikuku, Rubia, Matiba and many others who died in the process of making Kenya what it is today. What we are seeing today is as a result of many people who suffered and contributed. They did many good things and yet they were taken to be doing bad things. We are not talking about revolutionists and those who wanted to overturn what had been made good by the first group. This Motion, therefore, shifts the goal post from what was originally good to what is said to be dubious. We have people who have claimed and written books saying that they participated in the 1982 coup. These are the ones that the Government should deal with very carefully. I thought that my friend, Dr. Khalwale, would say that those people should be 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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