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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion. It is without doubt that we must meet again next week because there is business that is still pending. We were supposed to go for recess but there are compelling reasons as to why we should reconvene on Tuesday, next week. I fully support the decision taken by the Senate Majority Leader. In supporting this Motion, I want to say without fear of contradiction that nations go through moments where one has to either choose to resolve the great historical and political questions that are confronting a nation or run away from them. In those moments, one requires statesmen, who can even be adversaries, to come together on the table of brotherhood, as Martin Luther King Jr. would refer to it, to resolve the important questions that confront a nation. We have repeatedly said on the Floor of this house that Kenya is one indivisible nation that believes in democracy and human rights. I want to remind Kenyans that unless we sit together, reason together and resolve the great questions that face the Republic of Kenya, this country cannot achieve the changes and the economic aspirations that our people want. You may remember the two great statesmen in the Middle East called Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. Yitzhak Rabin was a war hero who had fought and won many wars and Yasser Arafat was the liberation father. Those gentlemen got together and shook hands to bring peace in that part of the world that was so divided. Nelson Mandela and De Klerk, who were from different worlds, had a handshake, talked together and brought peace and freedom to the people of South Africa. In Kenya today, we have a historical moment where the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, agreed to work with Raila Amolo Odinga and other political figures to bring peace and prosperity to this country for us to become a perfect union, one nation and one country. Therefore, I plead that we give ourselves the opportunity to talk to each other, reason together and come back with solutions that can make a difference to our nation and country. I support and second the Motion on the alteration of the calendar and seek that you use your discretion in calling us to come on Tuesday next week."
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