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    "id": 88664,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. As I do this, I stand here a very disappointed person due to the fact that His Excellency, the President has refused to assent to the Indemnity (Repeal) Bill, taking into account that this country is now under a new and completely different constitutional dispensation. The Indemnity Act, Cap 44 of the laws of Kenya, was enacted in 1969, purposely to deal with the Somali community in northern Kenya and in particular, the residents. The administration of the Northern Frontier District (NFD) authorized the armed forces and security personnel to rape our girls, maim and kill the men and apply the politics of discrimination. Shockingly, in this era, I wonder why His Excellency the President has refused to assent to this Bill. Over the last 20 years since the advent of multi-partysm, we have struggled to have it in place. I remember that in 1999, I moved a Motion in the Eighth Parliament which was unanimously adopted in order to repeal this Act. The import and content of this Act which was tailor-made to handle the people of northern Kenya is malicious, capricious, offensive, oppressive, repugnant and barbaric. Even to think or imagine the existence of such Acts in this era of modernism is unimaginable. We want to accept the new constitutional dispensation but behind it, we should not also accept the continuation of such Acts which have been used over the years to declare the residents of a whole region as second class citizens. I wonder what kind of new constitutional dispensation we envisage as we sit here. I see hypocrisy and double-speak in how we manage our affairs. We expected that the President would reward the people of northern Kenya and allow"
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