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    "id": 1270792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Buuri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Amendment Bill has come at the right time. We, as the Kenya Kwanza Government, are committed to practicing equity. We are committed to serve each part of this country by looking for the disadvantaged and bringing them to par with the rest of Kenyans. Unfortunately, we are being pulled back by the same people who have taken us round for many years. Kenya is ready to move forward, unite and serve everybody. We need to spend a lot of time interrogating the implementation of our Constitution. All of us spend time seeing how we can move together. We support amendments that seek the greater good of the country, and not destruction. I support this Amendment Bill. We have too many constitutional commissions and independent offices supported by the Constitution. The county governments were created and operationalised by the Constitution. The Amendment Bill brought by Hon. Rahim Dawood is timely. I thank him because he is not mean. Many people would not have brought such an Amendment Bill. They would be asking what would happen to their tribes, counties or regions. I would not fall on the direction of propagating one region. I will stand to propagate for what is right. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Member who spoke before me talked about the disadvantaged. In our own constituencies, youths and people with disabilities are marginalised. We do not have a section, region or county where there are no people with disabilities. We also need to be sensitive when contributing and avoid being seen as propagating only for our counties. We need to speak from the perspective of doing the right thing. Principles and values are attributes that aid good governance in institutions. In the Great Lakes countries, we have an organisation called the International Forum for Parliament and Great Lakes Region. I am the president of democracy and good governance. I stand to support this because I believe in democracy and good governance. In order for us to be seen from that perspective, we must practice democracy. This Bill seeks to bring in the element of democracy and good governance. Democracy in the sense that everybody needs to be given equal opportunity. Good governance in the sense that whatever instrument we have for managing our affairs gives everybody an opportunity of what is happening. We cannot marginalise the disabled, the youth, women and even men. The only thing that I will not advocate for…"
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