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    "id": 1226446,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mosop, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abraham Kirwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As I said, the damages that the country incurred due to illegal demonstration in various parts of this country are in excess. If we were to call all the retailers who closed their businesses for fear of looting because there were businesses that were looted and they lost millions...We are talking about countrywide where we lost a lot of money. If we can adjust, it would be more. My appeal and request is that the individuals who organised and led the demonstrations, which in this case are the leaders of Azimio Party, should be held responsible and pay for the damages. Otherwise, if this continues on a weekly basis, it will bring this country to a standstill. As responsible leaders, measures have to be put in place to make sure that nobody wakes up one morning, just because they lost an election, and say I am going to demonstrate. If we held an election and for sure we had a winner, democracy is not the best system, but it is the best that we have. If you compare it to socialism, tyranny and many other systems, democracy is the best and it says that once we have declared a winner, then the rest of the losers have to accept and we move until the next election. However, it has become a pattern that when someone loses an election, the next thing he does is to call for a demonstration so that they can have a portion of the Government. The only option we have is to have them pay or compensate the losers or the people who are losing their property, businesses and even lives. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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