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    "id": 600320,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo Kubai",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, in Meru, we have a cultural practice whereby if you have wronged somebody and you have to swear that you are going to give the truth about an incident, you hold your brother’s ear. Once you do that, it is like the Christians lifting the Bible and swearing to tell the truth. But if you tell a young child or somebody born in town to hold his brother’s ear and say the truth, he or she might laugh because he or she does not see the sense in it. But if you ask a man of 60 or 70 to say the same and he knows that he is going to lie, he will not do it because he knows the repercussions. We have our Njuri Ncheke who are enshrined in the laws and lives of Merus. Once the Njuri Ncheke have decided a case, even if you take it anywhere else, the belief is that their decision is final. You cannot go to another court or any other place to have redress."
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