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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the President raised a very interesting scenario in his Speech where he talked about patriotism in this country. If I can quote briefly, he said:- “We should, therefore, always cherish and protect our nation as enumerated in our National Anthem. Firmly, we should stand to defend,” It is true that our country is beautiful. It is true that it has everything it takes to become a great nation. But the problem we have is that this country does not have nationalists. This country has a cabal of individuals who belong to pseudo-community based, ethnic based and corruption based cartels of individuals whose agenda is to solve their problems for now, and whatever happens to the country tomorrow is not their responsibility. Therefore, according to me, the truth and reality is that this Parliament must come up with certain structures to curtail some of the issues and vices that are making our country degenerate beyond belief and imagination. We must give the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) powers to prosecute and make sure that individuals who are in those positions are answerable. We should create institutions for posterity. I thank the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) that went to Naivasha and came back with a document called a Draft Constitutional. We thank them and assure our people that this House will pass the document. That is because where we have reached now, there is no turning back. I hope my colleagues will not come back into this House with amendments after they have gone out there and discussed it with their friends. They will say that, according to them, the game has not been played well. This game is not going to be “winner takes it all”. This game is going to be won by all of us. It must be a give and take game and I believe that this is the position that most Kenyans want."
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