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    "id": 704157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, as the distinguished Chairman ended, those Kenyans who were camping at the Gate of Parliament are not there anymore. Could he tell the House where they are because I heard on radio one lady protesting that they were bundled into vehicles and taken to Nakuru? That is not the issue. The issue is if they were Kenyan refugees in Uganda, were they refugees who went to Uganda as a consequence of the PEV of 2008? If they were, then the areas the Chairman has enumerated as being places where they came from are suspect because we know the epicentre of the post-election skirmishes. These were Naivasha, Eldoret or Uasin Gishu, parts of western, Nyanza and Nairobi. There were no post- election difficulties in Murang’a, Nyeri and places that he has counted. So, are these Kenyans who were in Uganda for other reasons or they went to Uganda because of PEV? Secondly and lastly, the people who went to Uganda because of violence that erupted after elections must either have been business people owning shops or land or a bit of both. What happened to their properties when they left the country? When the Government went to Uganda to ask them to come back to Kenya, why did the Government abandon them along the way and let them come and stay at the Gate of Parliament for two-and-a-half weeks? On a previous Saturday, a child was born at the Gate of Parliament by one of the returnees and the Government continued to ignore their plight. Tell us!"
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