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    "id": 114738,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Kamar",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 33,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Jepkoech Kamar",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the debate on the President’s Speech. Like most Members have said, I would like to appreciate the Speech as put forward by the President. However, I would like to comment on a few things. The first thing is on the Constitution. The President called upon this House to ensure that this time round, we get a new Constitution. I want to laud him for that and to encourage my colleagues because it is true that we can make history as the Tenth Parliament in giving Kenyans a new Constitution. For those of us who were at Bomas, it was very disappointing to come out with nothing after the Government had spent a lot of money. So, it was very encouraging to hear the President, in his own words, say that he would like to see this Parliament come up with a new Constitution. How shall we come up with it? We will only ensure that Kenyans get a new Constitution if we continue in dialogue and to assure each other that the new Constitution will be good for all of us. The small fights that we have seen have been fights of who will gain more than the other. We can assure each other and the nation at large that the Constitution is bigger than all of us and we must compromise and agree to negotiate. We must agree to come up with a document in the fastest time possible to give Kenyans a new Constitution. There is no option to this. We must have a new Constitution. The President also touched on national cohesion and integration, which I think this constitution can answer. It can answer if we ensure that every part of this country is satisfied with the product. We may not get a perfect document because everybody has something that they would like to have, but with a bit of compromise from all sides, we should come up with something. So, we must have a document that will bring us together as a nation, as a people and that will make us proud of our country Kenya. The President talked about the way the economic growth has been and actually mentioned the fact that for us to have a steady economic growth, we must have policies or politics that promoted unity and stability in this country. I would like to urge my colleagues in this House that it does not pay for us, especially now when we would like to have this Constitution, to destroy and undercut one another and to make statements to the public that create a lot of suspicion and dissatisfaction. It is really upon us, as a House, to take leadership when it comes to the Constitution. It is only when we promote politics that, as the President put it in his words, bring about stability that will be able to come up with a Constitution that will satisfy all of us. We must agree to persuade the population in this country to accept lesser than the ideal on all sides, if we have to satisfy everybody. One other thing that the President touched on, which I would like to comment on, is the issue of the milk flood that we have currently. Milk was poured in this country which was a very sad thing. For those of us from the farming communities, it was extremely sad to see milk being poured. We would even have been willing to donate the same milk to areas that do not have any food. How can a country that does not have"
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