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    "id": 111025,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having thanked those three groups, I would also like to remember the civil society. I would like to remember the media and the entire nation for the role that they have played and they continue to play. I would like to urge all those people, since we are all mentioned as Kenyans, to strongly join me as I strongly join them in supporting this particular draft for the sake of the following sacrifices that have been made to bring us this far. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to remember the heroes of this process. This has been a struggle for reforms and good governance in this country and many people have paid either with broken limbs or lost lives. Mr. Josiah Mwangi Kariuki popularly known as J.M. Kariuki was killed because he believed that it was wrong for Kenya to be a country of 10 millionaires and 10 million poor Kenyans. Today, as I speak, I know that J.M., wherever he is, is even more unhappy because, today, we risk having a Kenya where we have 40 billionaires and 40 million poor Kenyans who are literally begging. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to remember hon. Kenneth Matiba, hon. Charles Rubia, hon. James Orengo, hon. Martin Shikuku and hon. Masinde Muliro; who successfully galvanized the entire nation in the repeal of Section 2(A) of the Constitution of Kenya. At that time, I was a small boy at the University of Nairobi in first year. I want to remember Titus Tido Adungosi, who was by then in third year, and who was our student leader. The late Titus Tido Adungosi, who died because he believed in a better Kenya, again galvanized students to stand up against Moi. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are the heroes who gave birth to the indomitable spirit for change that has today put us in a firm course where we are now headed for a very exciting climax when we shall, next week, vote to pass this Draft Constitution. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must not fail; we must not fail at all! That is because if we fail, it will be tantamount to betrayal to so many people; including the ones that I have mentioned above and others. It will be betrayal to those little children and their parents who ran to a little church in Kiambaa, Eldoret, hoping to seek refuge during the post election violence, only to end up being burnt to death. We do not want to betray those people because if we had this draft in form of the law, those little children of God – completely defenseless – and those women in the Kiambaa Church in Eldoret would have been protected by the law. They would not have died! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say that never again should we have a document that gives the movers and shakers of politics in this country an opportunity to trade in the lives of poor Kenyans for the sake of achieving their political power games! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to urge my colleagues to refuse completely to be drawn into regional jingoism. It is that regional jingoism that is now dividing us. Let nobody cheat himself that what we are having in the country from the time we reached a stalemate in Kabete; let nobody cheat himself that it is a standoff between ODM and PNU. No! It is not! It is tribal, regional and ethnic jingoism. The"
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