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    "id": 610561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oginga",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Motion. For those who did not live at that time, this is, perhaps, just a theoretical exercise. However, some of us witnessed the torture of the Mau Mau . In fact, most people in detention from Central Province were brought to the area I come from. There were concentration camps in a place called Sinyanya. The Mau Mau were taken to Sinyanya because it is a bush infested with a lot of tsetse flies. They were actually taken there to die. There is another island called Mageta Island which is very deep and surrounded by crocodiles. They Mau Mau were taken there so that they could be eaten by crocodiles. At Oyamo Island, we still have the ruins of the torture chambers which were constructed by the British and I have been urging the Government to take them over and make it some kind of a national monument. That is because those tortures were real. Our people participated in protecting the Mau Mau . There is an incident where one Mau Mau member escaped. There was no way he could have escaped to Nairobi if he was not being protected by our people. Our people also participated in the resistance against the British rule. There is an old Mzee called Agola Walla who resisted the British when they wanted to convince him to be their lackey. He said that it was only over his dead body that he would he accept to be a leader appointed by a white man. He was arrested and detained on an island called Kismayu where he died. 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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