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    "id": 885508,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "If you look at the definition of a crime against humanity, it constitutes torture, murder, death as a result of persecution through political, racial, religious or ethnic grounds, or institutionalised discrimination and arbitrary and forcible transfer of populations. We, as the leadership, have failed our country and our country men. That is what has made them to be in all these categories. This Motion of Adjournment should be called what it is, which is, a leadership crisis that is bordering on crimes against humanity. I want to congratulate this House for passing the Preservation of Human Dignity and Enforcement of Economic and Social Rights Bill (Senate Bills No. 27 of 2018). This Bill will provide certain parameters and mechanisms for implementation of Articles 43, 53 and many other Articles of our Constitution that talk about human rights. It also looks into ways in which the county and national governments will make sure that the dignity of our people is ensured through a framework whose performance can be checked. In February, 2017, drought emergency was declared in this country. Cabinet secretaries told us that Kshs28 billion had been allocated and that the African Development Bank and the national Government were going to implement certain things. They talked of drilling boreholes, water storage facilities and grand water mapping but we do not have the reports. None of us, including those of us in this Senate, has ever asked about all these things. Not a single person has ever been asked about the Kshs28 billion. We were in Kirinyaga County and each governor stood up and talked of a rosy devolution just for people to be dying two weeks later. How? We were treated to a movie where counties looked like---"
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