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    "content": "Kenya. He was a special person in that rarely does a man give all that he has worked for, including his health, for a cause as Job did in the Bible. Whenever I met the late hon. Matiba, even in the state that he was, he was clear- minded about what he wanted Kenya to be. As leaders, we should ask ourselves whether we live according to what he believed in. This country needs to reflect on how we are treating our heroes. I went to Zimbabwe one day and would not sleep in Harare before visiting the Heroes Acre. I got there past 6.00 p.m. when they had closed, but when I told them that I was a Mau Mau veteran from Kenya, they opened for me. That is the spirit we want in this country. We must recognize people not because of big titles or the wealth they have amassed, but for what their spirit stands for and what they have given for this Country. The late hon. Matiba gave his health. When his story is told by his doctor, Dr. Nesbit, and his lawyer, hon. Paul Muite, it is disheartening and heart-breaking. You ask yourself how we got that low. The late hon. Matiba was not a criminal, but just somebody articulating what he believed in. How did we treat him even after what he was fighting for had been achieved in this country? We have seen auctioneers harass his family and take everything that he sweated for, when the same values he was fighting for had already been achieved. Are we grateful? The late hon. Matiba falls short of what one would call a saint through his acts of liberating this country. Some of us are enjoying the freedom and all the benefits, but do we remember him? It is not just him; a time has come that this country should create a special place for our heroes. At one time it was proposed that it should be at Uhuru Gardens. I wish we could actualize it. We should have a heroes’ corner where our later generations can go and see who fought for what. This should be from the days of Mau Mau to the times of pushing for Independence, during the time of the Kapenguria Six, and lately to the times of the late hon. Matiba, the late hon. Jaramogi Oginga and others. Let us not be partisan on a matter like this. The late hon. Matiba will be mourned by many others. I do not want to judge them. God will judge them, but he was a great man who should be put in the annals of history of this country by the generations that will come. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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