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    "id": 1086578,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I wanted to speak on behalf of the Chairperson of the Committee, who is absent because I chair the sub-committee dealing with questions, petitions and legislations in that Committee. The matter I was requesting to bring to the attention of the House is that this matter is not new. This question and even the issues being raised are not new. The records of the House will confirm that there is a previous Petition brought on the very matter and on the very issues by Hon. Ali Rasso himself. That Petition has been considered by the Committee and let me thank you, Hon. Speaker, on behalf of Parliament, because you even facilitated the Committee to visit Marsabit. Hon. Rasso will confirm that we sat with him among other leaders and the various members of the communities living in Marsabit across the constituencies being mentioned from Moyale, Fafi, even the Rendile section, Laisamis, with the facilitation of Parliament taking all that risk. Hon. Speaker, my concern is that Hon. Rasso and the Members know that this matter had been raised. The Committee has even retreated and done a report. With your indulgence, I had hoped that we will lay the report covering all those matters and our preferred solution to them, again, raised in this matter. I wanted to request that as leaders, we do not address issues concerning security in a manner that may escalate them and engender tension among the people. When we speak, the people in Marsabit are watching. This is a matter which is not just inter-ethnic in terms of the elements that we already have in the report, but it also has political dimensions. You hear the names being mentioned. Let us use the platform of the House to be fair when there is a matter under consideration before the House through its proper committees as per our prayer. Let me assure the Members that this is a question we do not need to forward to the Committee again. We have already treated this matter through the previous Petition that he raised. Instead, let me commit, on behalf of the Committee, to check where the report is with all these answers being sought, and then we can table them here and the issue is sorted out. I thank you."
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