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    "id": 610566,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Oginga",
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Gitu Kahengeri was taking. I know there are many people from Alego, Gem, Ugenya and even from Bondo who participated in the Mau Mau and were tortured. They had all the evidence that they were actually tortured during that time. I, therefore, thank hon. Wangamati for having thought it fit to bring this Motion. I know that Elijah Masinde who he has been talked about was a great friend of my dad and he was tortured very many times by the British colonial authorities. This was because of his persistent struggle and resistance against the British colonial rule. It is not only him but there are many others who struggled. An hon. Member was asking how this is going to be done. It is going to be done in the same way the others were done because the British have not closed the window. They know that it is not only those who were compensated who were actually involved in the struggle, but they were just the people who managed to go to court. Therefore, those others can still be forwarded and negotiated outside the courts because those settlements were not settled in courts. I believe that what we are doing here is not in futility. I believe that once this Motion is passed, there is going to be a window for negotiating with the British Government to compensate many others who also suffered in the hands of their authorities. It was very harsh because the British colonial authorities used to adopt a tactic called divide and rule, which was a very dangerous policy. They wanted to make it more or less a civil war between the Kikuyus, Embus and Merus and the rest of the country. However, Kenyans were very clever because they refused to get into the trap of the British colonial authorities and supported whoever was struggling against the British colonial rule."
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