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    "id": 1133998,
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    "type": "speech",
    "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": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to, very briefly, say that I congratulate the President on his Speech on issues of national security, international obligations, national values and climate reforms. Because of the short time, I just want to say that in a way, it was the President indicating his legacy and the steps he has taken. I challenge his speech writer to, in future, shorten it so that we can get the gist of the issues. The President had very important issues which were getting lost. I commend the mention of reproductive rights and healthcare in terms of progress for women. We have seen it live. We do not need to be told. We are seeing hospitals coming back. It is only a tragedy that we have to use the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to do that when our civilian institutions should already be equipped to do the same. Because of corruption, it has become a challenge and we need to deal with this situation. Of course, on devolution, it is unfortunate that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) collapsed. It would be good if we could consider reviving it at one point in time. I thank the President for alluding to a possibility of the revival of the BBI at whatever time. We lost a lot on the issue of the two-thirds gender principle and allocation of money to devolution, that would spur economic growth. I also thank him on the realisation of the fight against COVID-19 and economic growth even at a most difficult time. Those were issues that are pertinent. As leaders, especially those of us who are here, we know that there will always be people who are unappreciative of work done. None of us came here to save the world as Jesus Christ. Even when Jesus came, he was disowned even by his own people. So, there is nothing very unique when we hear people like Hon. Ichung’wah casting aspersions on the President. One of the things I wanted to tell him earlier on is that the Abaluhya say “vindu vichenjanga”. On vinduvichenjanga, he is now there in the Opposition and I am here defending the President. We will defend the President when he has done work and people like Hon. Ichung’wah want to raise issues."
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