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    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Allow me to also add my unequivocal support and those of my constituents. Let me begin by saying this: Sometimes we do not appreciate the magnitude of the handshake and the weight of it at the steps of the Harambee House on 3rd of March, two years ago. There are those who have said that this is not a popular initiative, but an initiative by two people. When that handshake was made at the steps of Harambee House, on one side of the handshake was over six million votes of the President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, on the other side of that handshake hand was over six million votes of His Excellency Raila Amolo Odinga, you add that to the four million that appended their signatures to the BBI, you will find that we are a total of over 16 million Kenyans behind this. So we need to dispel from the very beginning the notion that has been touted that this is an initiative of two people. It is not. Behind those hands, there are over 16 million votes including the four million people that appended their signature to this. As I was driving here, I was reminded of the words of the late President of the United State, Barack Obama, at his first inauguration where he said that every so often, there comes a time in the history of a people that every generation finds in their time a situation in which history wants to turn. The question is: On which side of history are you going to be in?"
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