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    "id": 920692,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/920692/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to comment on this Statement. I thank Sen. Cherargei for coming up with this elaborate Statement on what the Committee is doing. The work that this Committee is doing is very important in this House. Just the other day, we were talking about the Solai incident, and it came out clearly how the people suffered. The Committee went on the ground to see what exactly transpired and empathize with the people. The Committee investigated and discovered that the people were dissatisfied. It reported that the county government had not done much as it was supposed to do for the victims of the Solai dam incident. I believe that this Committee will not rest on its laurels and that it will go ahead to ensure that there is justice for the residents of Solai. Quite a number of families were affected and I believe that even some bread winners died in the incident. When a bread winner in a family dies, the family takes a different route altogether because it becomes a socio-economic lag to the family. Therefore, there is need for justice for the families, children, widows and widowers arising from this incident. Madam Temporary Speaker, even as the Committee is talking about compensation, they should ensure that the people who were killed unfairly during the post-election violence are compensated. We were in Kisumu just the other day, and we went to visit baby Pendo’s home. It was a sorry state of---"
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