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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "When you talk about technical support, women’s movement, the fight for democracy in this country from 1992 or even before that was able to succeed because we had the technical support of our foreign partners. Madam Deputy Speaker, if you look at the women movement, including yourself, you have even invited me to train women in programmes you have been running that are supported by foreign agencies. However, somebody now feels threatened that since there is a new wave of democracy and people want to chart their way forward, they want to micromanage everything. There is a very bad behavior that has crippled this country, where leaders are being monitored from House to House; people want to know who you are sitting with, who you are eating with and who is supporting you. I think Parliament should stand firm. I want to tell our development partners, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), all the corporations we work with, women in this country, youth, those who work on conflict issues--- Madam Deputy Speaker, I have a background in The Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) world and, as a lecturer at the university, I was invited to do so much work; to train different kinds of people and give technical support to those running for office, especially before 2013 elections. We cannot just wake up now and write letters left, right and center because somebody feels like he has lost the political grip at the moment. I want to ask the American Government and European nations that they are our partners when they support us financially for roads and projects. They are still our partners when the support democracy because they have a stake in this country, just the way we have a stake in their countries because we have a stake in the well being of the planet earth. We have just come from the Glasgow Conference COP 26 that is discussing technical support on matters environment and many political parties in this country are working on issues of environment. Do you want to tell me that they should not be assisted when they are working on their manifestos to ensure that environmental support- -- This issue is a shame. I want to tell those who remained in Jubilee and are still there for the remaining eight months, shame on you! Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker."
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