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    "id": 610428,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Some people, even from central Province never got any money from this compensation. The British government has apologised for the brutal killings and torture, which Kenyans went through and has accepted to settle the matter outside the courts. I call this a landmark decision by the government of the people, for the people and by the people. The British Government has accepted to release a further compensation on condition that only the victims who are still alive and can prove that they were tortured will be compensated. Only the children of the victims are alive and cannot prove that they were tortured. Therefore, it is not possible for them to get this money if this House does not think about them. Some of these children were not yet born. Surviving victims cannot travel to Nairobi to record statements with Cecil Miller Advocates. Many families of the freedom fighters are either squatters or are leading miserable lives as the parents could not afford to give them, at the very least, education. So, the Kenya Government must rescue them from long suffering. The descendants of the freedom fighters all over this country should be assisted by ensuring that they benefit from the second allocation from the British Government. I urge that further compensation should go to the descendants of the freedom fighters all over the country. Members of this Eleventh Parliament know some of the victims, who are still suffering in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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