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    "id": 543584,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to also condole with the families of the children that we lost in the Garissa Massacre. Bungoma County lost ten children and of those ten, five are from Tongaren Constituency. Three of them are from one ward. As we speak, in fact, I was going out of the House once in a while to monitor the on-goings of the last one, Stella, who was being buried today. She was a daughter of a single mother who sells bits and pieces on the market. This child was the first to go to a university from a poor school in that locality. This Garissa Massacre has opened our eyes to the dichotomy that we live in in Kenya. We are two communities - the rich and the poor. The poor go to public universities and are exposed to the vagaries of terrorists. We have to ask many questions and some have been asked. Why did the rescue team arrive so late? The other question is: Is it true that in the girls’ hostel at the Garissa University College they separated the girls into Muslims and Christians in different quarters? Is it true? That is a question we need an answer to. There is also something which is said that as the terror was going on, the locals in Garissa wanted to go in and rescue these children but they were barred by the army and the few people who were surrounding the campus as the massacre proceeded. Is that true? The other question we need to ask is: Is it true that the setting up of this university raised so much animosity and acrimony that the leadership of the university had to be changed and that that animosity has continued to date? The other question is: Where are those 4,000 kids that the last Government trained to go and fight along the Somalia Government? Are they the ones visiting terror on us? Of the five students I lost in my constituency, four of them are girls. One is a boy."
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