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    "id": 610509,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/610509/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1372,
        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
        "slug": "onesmus-muthomi-njuki"
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    "content": "fighters in a British court, they were 528 former freedom fighters who were included in this case. The British Government decided to pay an out of court settlement. I can only imagine what would have happened if we went full length. May be we would have gotten more money in this particular case. However, they paid out of court settlement but the most perturbing thing about this is that it was paid in pounds. I do not know what exchange rate was used for what is written in the Motion but I know they were paid Kshs19.9 million. If you use the exchange rate of today, it is roughly about Kshs 2.9 billion. The lawyer’s fee that was levied against this money is what leaves the begging question: Was it really a genuine representation or it was a business? Out of that the British law firm took 35 per cent of that money which is about 6.6 million pounds. How do you represent somebody in court then you go with 35 per cent of their money without even having to look at the tax that actually the law firm claimed? This was not paid to Kenya or the Kenyan taxman. It was paid to Britain. We are not even sure whether the British got value for money. So, as much as we were lucky to have our Mau Mau compensated, there is still a lot that needs to be looked into in terms of the genuineness of the lawyer who was representing them."
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