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    "id": 1067826,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you for this opportunity. From the outset, I support the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020. I stand here as a woman representative of Kisumu County, one of the areas in this country that was highest hit and bore the biggest brunt of election violence. It is in Kisumu County where young people lost their lives senselessly. Kisumu County bears the brunt of having innocent children being killed while their mothers were holding them. I speak on behalf of baby Pendo who was senselessly killed while the mother was holding her just because of election violence. I also stand to speak as a woman because during election violence, it is the women who also bear the brunt of the violence. We have heard of women being physically abused and raped during election violence. Women bury their loved children because they are senselessly killed. So, as I stand here today to speak for my constituents and I speak for the women folk at large. My mind goes back to the words of the Leader of the Majority Party when he moved the Bill in this House and said that when you think of the BBI Bill, think of peace, unity and security. Given those three adjectives, I fully support the BBI Bill considering that what Kisumu County is looking for is unity, peace and security, so that never again will we have to lose lives. Unmet expectations, heightened by our election policy where the winner takes it all, is what creates violence after every election. We clearly saw after the 2013 elections that two regions stood to be eating meat as other 42 regions watched them in hunger. That is what the BBI Bill is trying to resolve. The Bill is bringing inclusivity through the expanded Executive so that we do not have only two tribes eating as the other 42 tribes are hungry watching and drooling. The Bill wants to cure that. What the Bill seeks to do is to encourage more regions to be included in the expanded executive. When more 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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