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    "id": 110622,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to touch on the area of devolution that was sensationalized yesterday. Devolution and, in particular, regional governments have been part of the three tier devolution since the Bomas days. In Bomas, 14 regions were agreed upon after six months of debate. In the Harmonized Draft, they were reduced to nine. They are not creations, as was said yesterday, of any individual ethnic group or region to suppress others. We must be very honest because whatever we say in this House goes down to the grassroots and we distort information. Some hon. Members mentioned that there were fears that if we go for regions, the problems of 2008 may return. I asked myself: Have we forgotten why we got into those problems in 2008? Did we have regions in 2008? I think we should be very clear so that we do not destabilize the people even before we take care of all our Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). Currently, we have IDPs who have been forgotten in Uganda. They never left from Rift Valley Province! The focus yesterday was that Rift Valley might do it again. I said: But the ones who are yet to be brought back from Uganda never walked away from Rift Valley! We must deal with issues that are on the ground. We should deal with the issues of 2008 boldly and sort them out. That is because if there will be suspicion of counting of votes in 2012, it does not matter whether we have counties, regions or whatever else! It is very important that we be very honest and deal with issues."
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