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    "id": 9417,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying that those Kenyans, somebody or a non-governmental organization (NGO) somewhere must go to court and compel the Government to pay for their misery, pain and trauma, and not just for the houses they had constructed. It actually made me sick. It reminded me of Muoroto during the infamous KANU days. To imagine that this particular Government, which is full of people who were champions of human rights, and who have now forgotten anything to do with human rights, can actually do to people what was done in the early 1990s during those infamous KANU days. This is a complete disappointment to many Kenyans. It is a betrayal. The Government stands in a fiduciary position to all Kenyans; they are our trustees. The Government is to every citizen what a parent is to a child. They trust you completely and expect your protection. It is the Government of Kenya now that has been violating the rights of its own people; is creating destitutes out of hardworking people and traumatizing children and adults. It is actually demolishing houses when the occupants are still inside, the very same way it was done in Muoroto, resulting in deaths. It does not matter that death did not result from demolition; it will result from the cold and the trauma, anyway. This Government has waged war on its citizens, at a time when the citizens are willing and have been supporting the Government in its security operations. Was there no other way? Is the Government out of its wits in so far as combating crime is concerned, so that it has to go and violate its people’s rights?"
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