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    "id": 675379,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Korere",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13134,
        "legal_name": "Sara Paulata Korere",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to oppose this Report. I listened to the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations making his contribution and it is sad that after 50 years of Independence, some Kenyan citizens are not independent from their colonial masters. I speak from experience because I have been affected by activities of the British Army. For the last 40 years, the British Army has been exercising in one of our group ranches in Mukogodo. It is true they raped so many women and in my location, I have an administrator who was born out of such. They leave unexploded ordinances in the field which have killed our children, animals and maimed so many people. The list is long. In 2003, through a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) I was working with, we managed to take the British Army to a British court and we were awarded compensation for some of their atrocities. However, this compensation was not fully honoured by the British Government. After we took them to court, they withdrew from Mukogodo and moved to the farms of the British who still own huge chunks of land in Laikipia. It is ridiculous and shameful to mention that the British Army only pays Kshs19 million to train in Kenya while I know for a fact that they pay some of those private ranches hundreds of millions because they are owned by Britons. That is a great shame."
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