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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. You know at times it is good to allow Hon. Jared Okello, being the only ODM Member present in the House today to, at least, be seen to be defending his party leader. However, I can also assure him that there are no people to threaten in the Government. There will be no handshakes and you can take that to the bank. You can protest and scream at the top of your voices, but there will be no handshake because we know what it did to us in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was saying that if you look at the Cotonou Agreement, which according to the Report was to expire in February 2020, it aims at reducing and hopefully, eradicating poverty. It will also contribute to the gradual integration of ACP States into the world economy. It was based on three pillars, the first one being the issue I was speaking to and maybe that is why Hon. Jared Okello intercepted. I am sure he has not even seen the Report thus he is not able to relate to the issues I am speaking on development, world peace and so on. Let me just read to him that it was based on three pillars. Top among those pillars is development cooperation. Two, is the economic and trade cooperation. That is where the EPA comes in on matters trade and economic cooperation. The third pillar is the political dimension and it relates to development. One of the things we should learn even as we engage with other member states within ACP-EU is that democracy is not something you just talk about when it is convenient. We are engaging with the other member states that are practising real and true democracy where people hold elections and allow their people to go on with their lives after elections. When governments are established, you do not come to destabilise them with threats of grand marches or demonstrations and boycotts. The other time you said that you were going to boycott some milk products because the leadership of the regime then consisted of milk processors. This time round, I am wondering what you are going to boycott."
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