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    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank our Members of Parliament who attended this meeting in Rwanda. The information they have given us is useful. I appreciate them. There are many common problems to parliamentarians in their different countries. They go through similar problems like us. When our Members of Parliament meet other parliamentarians, they exchange views and some of those views become solutions to our problems. I have in mind climate change which is a global issue and economic issues which is a big problem especially for a country like ours. I also know that socially, we have common problems like what happened on Monday, 20th March 2023. This is also a problem in other countries. For example, South Africans were also picketing and demonstrating on the same day. One thing I admire about South Africa is that they held peaceful demonstrations without anyone getting killed. This is something we should admire. We also need to question ourselves and search our souls as to why people lose their lives when they are picketing and demonstrating. We must admit of our deficiencies and identify those areas for corrective purposes. If you ask me who was on the wrong, I will clearly say that our police need to check themselves. The solution is not in killing your own brothers. You cause harm to those who defend themselves with stones because that is the only available weapon to them. When demonstrators throw stones to defend themselves, they are deemed to be on the wrong whereas those who use guns to kill those who are exercising their democratic rights are deemed to be on the right. We tend to turn to the other side. If I was one of the delegates, I would have exploited their presence in Rwanda to know how they handle such cases. We honestly need to know how to handle those who are aggrieved and are exercising their constitutional and democratic rights. We should not kill them. A meeting of the minds is important. What happened in Rwanda during the Assembly of the IPU was exchange of ideas which is important. From the Report tabled here, I urge our Members of Parliament to check where we lack so that we can improve ourselves. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I support. Thank you."
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