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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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    "content": " Thank you, but you were there. So, you can tell me who were there. We had all of them there. Uhuru Kenyatta, Ruto, Amos Wako, Orengo, Kimunya and many others were there. They destroyed the issue of the Senate. Anyway, it is good that those who sacrificed and went through the two to three years of sitting every day at CKRC are now seeing progress. I want to remember my friend, Dr. Mbai. We now see where we came from. It is the issue that the BBI Bill is coming to handle. It is the content. Our Constitution covers it all. It is all there. However, the aspirations of the people and the needs of wananchi have not been satisfied and so BBI has had to come in. President Uhuru Kenyatta and the former Prime Minister have had to compromise to bring peace to this country. That compromise has been respected and honoured by the people of Kenya. Over 3.5 million people signed in support of the BBI Bill. This is the sovereignty of the people. Our needs and aspirations are covered in this Bill in simple language so that we can know what put us where we were and the problems we have had. As I said, public participation is very important. Some of us feel that it is a good thing that BBI has come to bring sanity to this discussion. We have been talking about the implementation of the Constitution since 2010. The issue of women representation has been talked about since 2010. I wanted to address Hon. Millie Odhiambo. It is not that men did not want women to come to this House. We do. After all, my mother is a woman. We want women to come. We want them to be supportive. We want them to be part and parcel of the process. That is what we call inclusiveness. They are the ones who make sense. One of the major reasons that I support BBI is because it has brought peace. I have been to many places in this world up to the corners of the Atlantic further than Fiji, where people respect and know what NG-CDF is. They respect and know who Raila Amolo Odinga is. The people of this world know Raila Amolo Odinga and the sacrifices that he has made for Kenya. You can go to any corner in this world and you will find that the people know that. I was in Nigeria one time when Goodluck Jonathan was the President and the first question he asked me was not: “How is your President?” He asked about Raila Amolo Odinga. What I am trying to suggest is that, sometimes, a person like that is not recognised, acknowledged, accepted or appreciated in his or her own country. It needs somebody else to bring him in. That is why I have great respect for President Uhuru Kenyatta, because he has seen him as a brother and taken him in and said: “Listen, Raila. You are doing the right thing and I am going to join forces with you and we are going to bring peace to this country that has had a lot of problems.” I chair the African Parliamentarians Network against Corruption. One of the major problems that have been identified as the pandemic in Kenya is corruption. That is one of the nine points that are covered very well in the BBI Report. The only point is implementation. What are we going to do about it? If somebody is corrupt, let us take immediate action. That is what the 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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