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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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"content": "Unfortunately, right now we have moved to “ tumbocracy’’ (selfish interests) and have forgotten democracy. Even when we are talking about democracy, it is basically to further the agenda of making ourselves richer and pushing other people down. We only change the language, make it flowery, change the terminology but we have forgotten about Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, how I pray that we go back to the height which we have fallen from and consider Kenyans first and not ourselves. Finally, it is a tragedy that in this country, when we lose great heroes, we come and eulogise them for one or two minutes, go to their funerals, play politics and they are long forgotten. We need to take it more seriously, for those who fought for the democracy of this country, we need to do something more serious for them when they are alive. Even if they have already died, we need to remember their own families so that people can know that it pays to fight for this country. I know there were days when I was in the university that if you had to read an article you had to hide in the toilet. I think there was “ Beyond Magazine ”. Now when I look at the things for which we were being made to hide in the toilet…I know there was a Member of Parliament who was jailed for saying: “One of these days you will be surprised to see Mwai Kibaki as the President of Kenya.” Hon. Speaker, may we never forget that democracy came at a price and let us not play “ tumbocracy” with it. I wish yet again to reiterate my condolences to the late Hon. Nthenge’s family"
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