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    "id": 712445,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/712445/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wangamati",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Wangamati",
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    "content": "come to this country and what they would do for our people. These leaders fought the white people who had weapons. They killed very many people in the late 1890s. We need to write a book on this so that our children and our people can know how these white people supressed our leaders, entered this country and conquered everybody. They have their history that we cannot even compare with ours at this time. After that, the white man used our people to go and fight in World War I and World War II. He arrested them. He did not even tell them that they were going to fight in those wars and what our country, community or people would gain. These things have been there. Our people want to know how people were amassed. They took cattle and food to go and feed people in World War I and World War II. This country needs to know this. Our youth should also know this but when they want to know this, they have to go and buy books from white people, which have been written in their own interest. I have talked here about Dini ya Musambwa, Mau Mau and other community organisations, which I can name, if given time. These people protested and started demanding that mzungu aende, mwafrika ajitawale mwenyewe . Many people have not written about this and yet people who fought for this suffered greatly. They were killed, arrested and their body parts chopped off. Their children did not get a chance to go to school. They are also suffering. Those who are still alive are suffering because they have not even been compensated. The British Government has always accepted that it is prepared to compensate the victims if our Government can submit their names. We have kept quiet until now as if we do not know anything about Dini ya Musambwa or Mau Mau. The Government has not talked about this and I am very disturbed because I am one of those people who fought in the Dini ya Musambwa and Mau Mau movements. We were really tortured in this country at that time. We have heard about another team which we call the Second Liberation, when we had the dictatorship regime ruling this country. Some of us volunteered and fought to bring the democracy that we are now enjoying. Some of these people have died while some are still there. Their children have been denied many things. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this Bill should include the history of our country and those men and women who made history should be mentioned and honoured. It is important that a House as democratic as the 11th Parliament should discuss these things freely and create a taskforce or a commission or whatever name we can choose to use, to dig out all this information for our people and children. This will ensure that Kenya is respected, and if anybody came to this country, he or she can learn."
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