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    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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    "content": "people want. The President should not come and tell us that he is powerless because the system has tied his hands. I think that is why he is asking that the BBI Bill becomes a simple document that people can understand. Everybody knows about ethnic antagonism. We know we have been tribal. How it came about, we do not know. But we must say, let us go and accentuate the positive. There are very many positive issues in tribes and ethnicities. There was a time a Kenyan was loved. When you went abroad and said you are a Kenyan, they said: “You are the friendliest people in the world. The friendliest people in Africa, the most intelligent people, the ones that speak great English, you are understanding, loving and very honest.” We used to go to Dubai and when shopkeepers saw a Nigerian, they would run away. If they saw a Kenyan, they would welcome her. It was all over the world. We have lost the ethos. We have lost that respect. We have lost the integrity. We need to regain it. Everywhere in the world we hear Kenya is number 7 or 10 in corruption. What is it? Why are we losing this? Our athlete Kipchoge is the first man in the world to run the marathon in less than two hours. There is a person who broke the three-mile race record. Good God, that was 1950 - something they are talking about up to today. If others can recognise us, we need our ethos back. We want inclusivity. We want the political systems to involve the people. My colleague Hon. Limo opposed the Bill, but he said a good thing - that we want to have official Opposition. I have been sitting on the Opposition side now for three terms. I have been here. The year 2007 was the only time that I saw the Opposition making some efforts. Now we want the leader of official Opposition to sit in this House so that he can bring us together. We do not want to deal with simple issues; we want to deal with major issues. We have lost hope. We, the people of Kisumu East. support BBI. We had lost hope in Kisumu. We had never seen those waterways that we see now. We had never seen some of these things that we get now. So, hope has come. When Kisumu was elevated to city status by Moi, he asked me: “So, kijana, umepatiwa city. How is it going to help you get unga ?” I said: “No! It has given us self-respect.” That is what we are saying. BBI is ours. I want to thank Raila Amolo Odinga, the President and all those who have been behind this project. Let us not use little mistakes to cause a problem. Let us not throw the baby out with the bathwater. With those few remarks, I wholly and fully support the BBI Bill. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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