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    "id": 82911,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "in the cases in which I and the Nairobi Law Monthly were charged with many counts of sedition, he was in office when I was served with the detention order under the Preservation of Security Act. He was also in office when the hon. Justice Ibrahim was detained with me. He was in office when Mr. John Khaminwa, an advocate, was detained. He was in office when Mr. Charles Rubia, hon. Raila Odinga and Kenneth Matiba were detained. More importantly, he has failed to tell this House that upon release from detention, it was his office that prosecuted me again with sedition on the same day I was supposed to be released from Naivasha. I was re-arrested and locked up the very same day. So, although he should claim some credit, he also ought to tell the House the whole truth. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you came to visit me in hospital just recently and I rose reluctantly because I was in hospital out of injuries I received in Nyayo House when this Attorney-General was there. He has been opposing all the applications that have been filed by people who went through the Nyayo House Torture Chambers until the judgments have been given and he is only reluctantly, as a result of the intervention of this House that he has agreed to pay those detainees. So, please, as the Attorney-General blows his trumpet, he must also remember that we are also sitting in this House to remind him of the truth about the circumstances under which we were held up. There are many others who died, who cannot stand up in this House, as I and Ms. Karua can do, and correct the record. These are not matters to joke about. These are serious matters for which the State ought to be at the forefront, even in offering compensation under this new dispensation. It ought to offer an apology to the people of Kenya and the families of some of these detainees who cannot speak or walk today as a result of injuries they received in the Nyayo Torture Chambers and many other places when the Attorney-General was in office. These are facts and that is the truth."
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