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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Karani",
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Wachira Karani",
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    "content": "tendency of people using the Judiciary to stop very noble ideas. For example, it took two years for those people to be paid this money after the British Government agreed to pay the compensation. That is because some busy-bodies went to court and put injunctions. Those people, as old and sick as they are, have waited for two years to get their compensation. Recently, we have seen people going to court to challenge the noble idea of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and, hence, it being declared illegal. This is the time that busy-bodies should cease using the Judiciary to interfere with very noble ideas of this country. In Laikipia County, my people were compensated by the same British Government because their defence forces use our county to practice. The people who were injured and killed by grenades were compensated in the year 2003. Those people were paid so well that a majority of them have not lived to enjoy that money. That is because once they were given the compensation, they were not advised on how to spend the money. Overnight, people became millionaires and most of them have since died with only a few managing to make use of that money. The only problem I have with this Motion, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, is that I do not know how, as a Government, we are going to make sure that there is compensation from a foreign country. That is because it is not money from our Government but from the British Government. Specific people have gone to court and won compensation. I do not know how the Government will ensure that, that money is shared between the different people in the country, if they were not represented in the courts after we pass this Motion. It is upon the Mover of this Motion to show how the Government will make that possible. Thank you very much. I support."
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