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    "id": 78265,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/78265/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Industrialization",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion as amended. I must say that I am very pleased that we have included the issues of 1992, 1997 as well as the issue of banditry. From Laikipia and Samburu about 100,000 people have been displaced from their land because of continued cattle rustling and banditry over the last five to ten years. I have one principal reason for supporting this Motion: The whole purpose of a State is the protection of human lives and furtherance of fundamental rights and freedoms. Articles 32, 36, 38 and 39 of Chapter Four of the Constitution of Kenya define these issues to enable citizens to enjoy, not only their right to life, but other rights. I would have hoped that as this Committee looks into this issue, it also looks into the issue of compensation for the lives that have been lost. The fundamental right to life is the first most critical right. Therefore, even as we compensate the houses and the properties that were burnt and looted, of those who remained alive, we should also compensate the lives of the 1,300 Kenyans who died. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Constitution guarantees every citizen the freedom of movement, freedom to live in any corner of this country and to own property. Therefore, the work of this Select Committee is absolutely critical to the fulfillment of the spirit of the Constitution. With those few remarks, I support."
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