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    "id": 610576,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bishop R. Mutua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mutemi Mutua",
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    "content": "because they are living in poverty even though Independence has come. Last year, we were celebrating our Jubilee since we attained Independence. During that celebration, we should have highlighted the number of people who suffered when they were fighting for Independence. As a Kenyan society, we need to recognize all those fallen heroes in such a way that we can have them in our museums. We can have their names displayed in public places so that our people can begin to learn our new history and our children can begin to celebrate the liberation movement that Kenyans engaged in. It is very important that this House passes and agrees to set up a very special commission - a fact-finding commission - that will go around the country and come up with a corrected history of heroes who were involved in that particular struggle. As it is now, it is only patches here and there, pieces of information that are hardly complete. We need a comprehensive report on this particular issue so that when we are talking about compensation, it is not only compensation from the British Government, but even our own Government can compensate them. It can do something for those families that have suffered for so long because of the price they had to pay for us to be free. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to see a scenario where Kenyans can begin to celebrate the heroes who brought independence. Today, we celebrate the heroes who are in power and forget that before the power came, there was a struggle. Blood was shed, people suffered and even today, there are people who are not enjoying just because their fore-fathers had to do the payment. They had to pay the price. So, why can we not come up as a nation and facilitate those families that are suffering? Their fore- fathers had to go to the bush and fight the colonialists."
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