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    "id": 1067973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Speaker for the opportunity to also add my voice to the strongest support of this Bill. So many things especially pertaining to legal issues have been well articulated by our legal friends in the House. So, I will not belabor on them . However, allow me to also take this opportunity to congratulate my leader, His Excellency Raila Amolo Odinga and the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta for the bold step they took to show Kenyans true statesmanship, attitude and spirit when they decided to end the chaotic scenario that we had in 2017 and vouch for peace. I am talking as the Women Representative for Migori County, where this violence that followed the 2017 election left me with at least 20 young men and women dead. I buried them. I know each one of them by name. Many others were injured and maimed. If there is no other reason that would make me support this amendment Bill, I will only support it for peace in this country. As mothers of this country, our hearts bleed whenever we see our young people shot like birds following every other election year. Allow me to reiterate another reason why I am supporting this Bill. If you look at the responsibilities of a citizen that are introduced in the proposed amendment, the national ethos that has been elusive in this country is assured in this Bill. We are looking and talking of a future Kenya where each one of us can have a common understanding of what is right, what is good and acceptable to all versus what is wrong and not acceptable. From Turkana in the north to the south in the Maasailand, from the east in Rendileland all the way to Luo and Luhyaland, we want to have a common understanding of what is wrong and right as Kenyans, so that we do not hail stealing in one side of the country and condemn it in another side of the country. This is the reason we have 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."
}