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    "id": 904457,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Committee of the Whole House that will make this Bill better. However, without a doubt, it is a much better product in terms of the subject matter that we are dealing with. Madam Temporary Speaker, I salute Sen. Pareno and those she has worked with to come up with this Bill, which is not a short Bill. It deals with various themes and topics on the areas of cohesion and national integration. The transformation from mere integration to peace building is a qualitative leap. This is because we want to deal with peace building at all times, and not only in terms of national integration when we experience cycles of violence and conflict in our country. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is important to begin from where all this started. I can say without any fear of contradiction that if ordinary Kenyans were to be asked whether the NCIC has achieved its mandate, statutory obligations and guidelines that they were given in terms of the National Cohesion and Integration Act of 2008, the popular answer which will reflect the truth as it is; that the current commission has not lived up to its promise and the expectations of the people of Kenya. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Act that we want to repeal by the enactment of this Bill was enacted in the wake of post-election violence that we experienced during and after the elections in 2007. In fact, the National Cohesion and Integration Act of 2008 predated the Constitution. Some of the ideas that are found in the Act found their way into the Constitution of Kenya 2010. It was assented to a year after the elections, in 2007. However, it is important to remember that this Act came after a long journey that started in 1992, when violence was experienced in the elections. At that time, we called them tribal or land clashes. There were clashes again in 1997; and it would appear as if we were having a cycle of violence every five years, which erupted prior, during and after every election. Madam Temporary Speaker, after the elections in 1997, there was what was called the Akiwumi Commission of Inquiry into Tribal Land Clashes. That Commission was required to determine the underlying causes of clashes that the country experienced in 1997/1998 after the general elections. Other than talking about the underlying causes, it was hoped that through the commission, mechanisms would be found to determine the level of preparedness every time there was a possibility of violence erupting in the country, then and in the future; and ways and means of preventing such clashes. It was also hoped that there would be prosecutions or mechanisms for prosecution to deal with those who are responsible for this tribal or ethnic violence."
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