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    "id": 1032059,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not wish to regurgitate or amplify the good and positive things that the President said. I know we were all present. We all heard and saw. Those who have hearing and seeing challenges had other methods of being communicated to. So, they are all briefed about what the President said. The BBI that most people castigate and blame their problems on is an attempt at solving a very serious problem. The President alluded to and also talked about in his speech and other leaders have seen. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you read the Bible in the Book of Mathew 12: 22- 28, it talks about a divided house. A divided house cannot stand and is doomed to fail. This nation is doomed to fail on the basis of its serious divisions. We are divided at the executive. We have an executive that is so hopelessly divided that it cannot speak in one voice. We are divided at the legislature both here at the Senate and the National Assembly and between the Senate and the National Assembly. The public who pay for our resources do not get value for money on account of our division. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are divided among the communities where we come from. We are divided in terms of our economies and culture. These divisions have serious impact on our performance and delivery as a nation. If we do not address the serious divisions that we have among us, we will be a nation that is destined to fail. We will fail because we have not taken an initiative to come together. This is the purpose of BBI. It is an attempt to bring everybody together so that divisions that are running deeper among ourselves do not become our Achilles heel or our likely failure. We need to deal with them Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, look at the Executive and what used to be Jubilee Administration in 2013, what became of it in 2017 and what the Kenyan public are paying for by way of resourcing Government. Are they getting the value for their money? Are services being delivered? The leadership says something and those who are supposed to assist or work with the leadership do or say other things. We, as Kenyans, are helpless. We cannot do anything to rectify it. However, at least we have BBI to talk about this so that we can move together. Once we put an executive in place, we expect that executive to deliver for us. We who have entered leadership through opposition trenches must also stay united and focused. We must not lose our steps, sight and responsibility that we were brought here to achieve. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have had to metamorphose and try to rescue the executive from disappearance or failing to deliver because the executive itself is so divided. When we try to do that even at the level of the legislature, we cannot deliver policy and legislation because we are fighting with our sister House. I believe this is the time to seriously and honestly talk about fixing division from the top to the grassroots level. There have been talks about divisions during or after elections. There should be talks too about divisions that are in Government, legislature and the society. This is so that we have a society that can work. This may appear to be idle talk. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you are familiar with what is called structures in organizations. You may have a wonderful strategic vision. You may plan and have a strategic plan and management in place. However, until you have a structure that can deliver this, that vision remains a pipe dream. I think BBI is"
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