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"speaker_name": "Dr. Muthomi Thiankolu",
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"content": "Cyrus was obsessed with bringing down this little kingdom for no good reason, other than his own vanity and his failure to know when to stop. He pulls a trick. We have seen many tricks on this podium; of a meek, humble and honourable looking Governor. A victim of very many things and whose defense is, “it was not me, it was someone else”. Cyrus’s trick involved throwing a lavish party and setting up the soldiers of this small kingdom to a drink. While they were inebriated, he massacred them, leaving only a few and took the prince of that other small country as a prisoner of war. Even after this, the leader of the small country still offered him peace and told him, you broke the rule that it will be a conventional warfare and won by a trick. However, I will still give you another chance to return my son and will still declare peace. Cyrus refused and the son of Queen Tomyris, unable to live with the indignity of being a prisoner of war, committed suicide. When the people of this small country heard that the Crown Prince had committed suicide, as small, weak and vulnerable as they were, they organized a violent battle in which their army, which was about a hundredth of Cyrus's army, actually won the violent battle and Cyrus himself was killed. Due to Cyrus's inability to know when to stop, Persia ended up as a superpower and that is how Rome became a dominant country and the world and human civilization as we know it today is based on the Roman civilization. That is why I said that there would have been no Britain, no France, no America, but for the mistake of one leader not knowing when to stop. Our greatest fear is that the history of Meru may take an irreversible, tragic path. We saw very violent slaughters of animals, threats of slaughtering people and whatnot. As I was telling you, as long as our Governor keeps relapsing to these confrontations, we do not know when things will take a turn for the worst in a manner that is irreversible. Is it fair that the people of Meru live in this state of anxiety? For how long can we subject them to the situation that has now prevailed? Gov. Kawira Mwangaza will tell you that she knows when to stop. The record is clear. You have seen the videos from our side. You have seen the videos from her side. It is clear that she will not stop. Right now, she will tell you that she will stop because her career is on the line, but we know better; she will not. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a story is told about a frog and a scorpion and the swollen river. The scorpion could not swim and thus the frog, who is an amphibian and, therefore, capable of crossing the swollen river, decided to assist the frog to cross the river. The frog tells the scorpion in the story that he will sting me before we are done with crossing and we will both die and drown. The scorpion promised, no, I cannot do that. If I were to sting you while you are carrying me on your back to cross this swollen river, we will both die because it will be mutual destruction. As the Americans and the Russians called it during the Cold War, I have no incentive. There is no rational reason why I would sting you. The poor frog bought this story just like you are being invited to buy the story – “I will pray for them. I will forgive them. We only need a month.” So, frog took scorpion on his back and started swimming across the river and right in the middle, scorpion hoisted its"
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