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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. The importance of the Bill before us today is not so much in the contents as it has been in the history and background of this day. We must go back. How did this Bill come to be? We have had terrible issues of violence after every election. What I saw when I was the Director of Medical Services; how people were dying, many of the Members here did not see. What I saw in Naivasha, Londiani, and Burnt Forest! Hon. Speaker I saw people burning others' houses using a helicopter. In 2017/2018, which we come through, people have indicated here the violence that we had. On one day only in this country, 30 young people died between the airport and Uhuru Park. It is because all of us believed at that time that the only way you can have access to services and welfare is if your person is at the helm of governance. If the President had not been magnanimous, when we went for the swearing-in at Uhuru Park, this country would have seen bloodshed. However, the two leaders decided that there must be a way forward. Therefore, they had a handshake that stopped the violence. The country had literally stopped. Nairobi was ungovernable. However, it is not only stopping the violence that was important. What was also important to ask was: why does this keep happening year in, year out? Moreover, why are Kenyans going for each other's necks? The handshake brought the Building Bridges Initiative. In my view this initiative is to try and identify one thing: what are the problems that have beset the country since 1963 and have stopped this country from progressing in the way our forefathers imagined? That initiative looked at those issues, including issue of our ethos. Why is it that in this country corruption has become something acceptable? Maybe people our age may see corruption as something wrong. However, our children are seeing it as normal; a way of life. Can we live like that? Hon. Speaker, why is it that people always talk of 'our rights'. However, nobody talks about 'our responsibility.' Can we have a country where everybody is extracting their rights but nobody is exerting their responsibility? Hon. Speaker, these are the problems. Why do we have ethnic division and ethnic antagonism? On every issue, even here in the House, our politics is driven by that. This is because we do not believe we are one nation. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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