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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, sometimes I try to reflect on the Kenya we had in the 1960s upon the advent of Independence. It was not a Kenya that most of us lived in; but it is a Kenya that we have heard enormous stories about. Today, part of the anxiety and discomfort in the Coast region is basically as a result of the excesses that we witnessed at the advent of Independence; that the founding fathers became the founding fathers of corruption; they became the founding fathers of theft and ethnicity. But, today, these founding fathers are celebrated in our history books to our little children, yet we know it is a deception. I remember one of my cousins told me that he cannot send his child to a public school and that he will follow the GCSE system because there is no way he can allow his daughter or his son to idolize people who had disenfranchised him. This is because he knows that if they go through Kenyan schools, they will be told that “these are your freedom fighters” and yet these are the people who put them in the kind of situations that they are in today. If my cousin can think that way, I think it is important that as we evaluate these kind of history, we need to rewrite history accurately to really know who the real Mau Maus were and who the beneficiaries of the Mau Mau struggles were to the exclusion of the real Mau Mau."
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