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    "id": 601518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I congratulate my brother, Sen. Hassan, for moving this Bill. It is unique in many ways because soon after Independence, those who fought for it, including the likes of the late Mzee Kenyatta in Kenya and the late Nyerere in Tanzania and even the late President Nkurumah in Ghana said that on attainment of Independence, our principal role was not now the normal business of politics or fighting on the platform of freedom or human rights. For that matter, there are many African nations which stated that this new beginning was so demanding and there was no time to achieve many of the desires of other people or stakeholders who were fighting simply for democratic space and human rights. But for them, the subject of the day was the struggle against poverty, illiteracy or ignorance and provides health to the ordinary people. In fact, I can say that there were some countries which I would not want to mention that totally ignored the Bill of Rights and cared not to have the Bill of Rights in their written constitutions. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, therefore, if I go back to the beginning, it looks like this Bill is a restatement of what some of our founding fathers were saying that we need a fairer society, a more friendly and caring society in which education, health and shelter was available to the common citizenry even before talking about what I normally refer to as the fundamental human rights that include the freedom of expression, assembly and others. That argument was used to roll back the major achievements that we had gallantly fought for including the multi-party system which was fought on this basis. Principally, it had very little time to deal with common politics that the business of the day was providing health and getting rid of illiteracy to our people. What happened subsequently was that neither was freedom nurtured but even the provisions of these services were never given by the nations that emerged after the struggle for Independence. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there was a famous writer who wrote about the false start in Africa. In all directions, Africa was getting everything wrong. This Bill reminds me of the struggles that were going on in the 19th century. There was a famous Prime Minister in England known as Benjamin Disraeli(??). He was not only a politician but also a writer who wrote so many novels including the"
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