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    "content": "term to refer to your brothers and sisters. It is an embarrassment. We must show those people that they did not have to be displaced from their own homes and lose family members. I am aware of people who were very close and neighbours who lost their lives. I am also aware of people who came to our family farm and collected livestock. These are true issues, but what we are doing here is what I call lip-service. We are just being nice and flowering these things. However, I want to say without fear of contradiction that there is nothing good about what happened in 2007/2008. It does not matter which political divide that person came from. Whether it is before God or the courts of this country, justice should be truly served to the people who lost family members or do not know where their relatives went. There are also those who took money and went all the way to a European capital to lie. We should subject those people to true justice, because they have failed this country and created a mockery of Kenyans. We are better than that and should say so. It is not because the case is against the President, his Deputy and Mr. Sang, but it is an embarrassment to have people doing what they are doing in Europe. They are laughing at us. Maybe people should read what the late Judge who refused to confirm the case against the Kenyans said. What Judge Hanns said when he refused to confirm the cases against Kenyans represent what we should have done as a country. This is because he said that these crimes should have been tried in the Republic of Kenya, because they do not meet international standards and thresholds. That remains a fact because we are back to the drawing board. Kenyans have withdrawn their statements and witnesses, yet we have not resolved the issue. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the true solution to this country and the problems that we faced is legislation, reconciliation and justice. However, the truth must be told, because people are suffering quietly in their huts. Some will carry the burdens to another generation. We do not want to see people who have coexisted peacefully turning against their brothers and sisters as they did. I want to be able to go to the farm in Sachangwan and Rongai and not wonder what will happen to me at night. This is because the Independence that we fought for is for somebody to move from one part of the country and invest in another part of the country, so that then we can have a true country. This post-election violence even affected the economy of this country. In fact, it affected the value of land in the Rift Valley. We have failed to address this issue. We should not wait for another five years, so that the people who were investing in this country, other than worrying Ebola, will be worrying about post-election violence. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to record my statement."
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