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    "id": 1279393,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I hear Hon. Keynan telling me to add “a.k.a Baba.” Hon. Speaker, these are two eminent leaders in our country. They met and agreed that there is need to dialogue as a people and as a country. The Holy Book tells us that we should come together and reason. This is a call for Kenyans to come together and reason. The National Dialogue Committee has been established with the representation of Parliament, both Houses of Parliament and that is why we have Members of the National Assembly as well as Members of the Senate represented by Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot and Sen. Okong’o Omogeni. The Committee also has membership from outside Parliament represented in the Azimio-One Kenya Coalition by His Excellency Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka, delegation leader, and Hon. Eugene Wamalwa. We also have Hon. Cecily Mbarire, the Deputy Delegation Leader from the Kenya Kwanza side, and Hon. Sen. Omar Hassan Omar, former Senator of Mombasa, who are representatives out of Parliament. The brief we got following the engagement between the two leaders was to ensure that there is both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary engagement in this process. Appreciating that whatever will be agreed on in the dialogue endeavour will need to have legal anchorage, informed the National Dialogue Committee’s decision in our first and second meetings, through consensus, to have a Motion like this one to give the process some legal anchorage so that whatever we engage in during the dialogue process can have a legal basis. We also needed the legal anchorage because legislative or constitutional interventions may be required. Therefore, that is the essence of this Motion. Hon. Speaker, allow me to dis-abuse a number of myths or misinformation that have been peddled by many people. The first one is that this is a dialogue process to engage with the Minority Party or the Opposition with a view of getting them a foothold in the Kenya Kwanza Government or in the Kenya Kwanza administration. I am certainly speaking for Hon. Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka and Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, the Delegation Leader and Deputy Delegation Leader of the Azimio One Kenya Coalition, respectively. Indeed, the former Prime Minister is on record saying that he is not interested in either a “handshake” or what has been christened"
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