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    "id": 110250,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am mindful of the time, but I am also mindful of my rights. I should get my full share. First, I want to thank everybody who has really participated in this process. The road to a new Constitution has been long and winding. Even as I speak, I am not sure whether we have reached where we wanted to go. The Tenth Parliament has failed the leadership test. I stood here and pleaded with my colleagues that we go to Naivasha because I wanted us, as the political class, to come together and agree to adopt this document as it is, or whatever amendments to introduce, so that when we go to the referendum, we will be speaking with one voice as a political class. I am not sure whether we can now say that after we adopt this document, it will be that way. What were we trying to address in the constitutional review process? Why did our people have to die? Why did we have Saba Saba? Why did we lose both lives and livelihoods? It is because we wanted, first, the imperial presidency to go away. We wanted Parliament and the Judiciary to have sufficient checks and balances. We wanted to have a country where inequality cannot be the defining character of a nation. All of them are back with all their ugly faces. Hon. Members, elected to this House by the people of Kenya cannot pretend to come here and tell us that we cannot go through these amendments because they are too many. Give us another story! I cannot believe it! The tradition of this House is that we have amendments, we carry the ones that find favour us and throw away the ones that we do not like. How can we come here, some of us flying flags and being paid extra money and even me as a Back Bencher, maybe some of the highest paid people in the whole world, and say that we cannot change anything? I find that completely an act of cowardice. If you managed to watch Citizen Television yesterday, you would have seen that where I come from, when men disappear, even the women take their guns and go to war. I want Kenyans to be watching. Any Member who thinks he cannot bring an amendment, they need to be substituted in the next election."
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