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    "speaker_name": "Ms. S. Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Shakila Abdalla",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Motion. I would like to start by the peace prayers that were conducted on 28th February, 2010 to mark the two years since the National Accord was signed. Prayers are not enough for this country. The Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are still suffering in the camps. I expected the Government, apart from conducting the prayers, to come up with a strategy on how to resettle the IDPs. Unfortunately, nothing came up. On the Constitution, the President said that it is high time we gave this country a new Constitution and all of us agree with him. The ball is now in the court of this House. I take this opportunity to urge hon. Members to look at the Constitution very positively and not to politicise it as it has been the tradition of this House where we pass Bills and Motions and then go out and criticise them. An example is the Media Bill and the Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission. Let us not do that this time with the Constitution because it is a very important document. We have come a long way and Kenyans are looking forward to getting a new Constitution. Dealing with corruption is a collective responsibility. I beg to differ with my colleagues who have blamed His Excellency The President entirely for failing to tackle corruption. This is a collective responsibility. All of us should come out and stop defending our self interests whenever we are pointed out as being corrupt. Corruption is everywhere. As the former speaker, my ex-District Commissioner (DC), put it, corruption is everywhere even in the Ministry of Lands. I also take this opportunity to thank the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands for discovering the hidden files. We hope that the Ministry will take a stern action on the officers involved in that corruption so that it becomes a lesson to others. On infrastructure development, the President said that we should confront poverty by investing in education. I would like to say what is happening in Lamu now. There is a school in Kizingitini with 500 students which has been closed by the Department of Public Health because of deplorable conditions in the school. This is the case and yet we have infrastructure and the CDF funds. Indeed, it is very unfortunate. It is very unfortunate that we talk about confronting poverty by investing in education and on the other hand, we close schools due to deplorable conditions. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is unfortunate that the people of Lamu have not seen any light with the coming up of the Lamu Port. The most unfortunate thing is that they do not own the land which they have been fighting to own for a very long time. The biggest fear in Lamu is that with the coming up of the port, we will end up having many IDP camps. These people will be evicted from their land which will be termed as Government land for purposes of building the Port of Lamu."
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