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    "id": 1211702,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " I was saying that this proposal will enrich and deepen our democracy, and make the structures of the governance of our country only stronger. I know there are those who would want us to imagine that we need to go into a referendum and therefore the push to go back to Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) that was seeking to create positions for individuals. I have said that we must disabuse that notion even as we generally debate these proposals. That we are not seeking to create positions, because His Excellency the President and myself as we traversed this country promised the people of Kenya that His Excellency the President will run a government that seeks to create job opportunities and create wealth, not create positions for individuals. Therefore, this is not a position for an individual, it is a position for posterity that will deepen our democracy and that will ensure that the Government is held to account, run transparently and offer meaningful leadership to our brothers in the Minority Party. Who knows, tomorrow it could be Hon. John Mbadi taking that position of Leader of the Official Opposition. It could also be me or anyone in the Majority Party. It could even be the President today, you never know. We are therefore learning from what happens in other jurisdictions and where we faltered as we passed our Constitution of Kenya 2010. With that, I beg to move and ask Hon. Members to debate soberly and consider all these matters for the benefit of the people of Kenya. Not for the benefit of any particular leader or anyone in Government, but for the benefit of our country, to deepen our democracy and to ensure that our country grows to the next level that we ought to be moving to. I beg to move and ask all Members to support. Thank you."
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