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    "id": 1374112,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me, just like the rest of my colleagues have done to begin by congratulating members of the NADCO Committee for a job well done. As you know, I was part of the initial committee that attempted to resolve some of the issues that have been raised by Members of the Azimio Coalition. I am on public record having stated that I requested my principals to excuse me from that particular duty because, at the moment that I was making that decision, I did not feel that we were making any headway, and because, we are different people, some of us have what they call shorter fuses. Others, because of their advanced age, are a bit more tolerant and a bit more patient. I am happy that within the Azimio Coalition. We have a broad range of persons, and we were able to find wiser and calmer heads in the likes of Sen. Omogeni and the Wiper Leader, His Excellency, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, who are a bit more patient with our colleagues from the Kenya Kwanza side during these discussions, and this is the result. I agonised during that period on what the role of a messenger is because, the messages that we were required to transmit to the negotiation table were not our messages. Sometimes, people make fun of me, saying, ooh, we have seen Sen. Sifuna wearing a sufuria on his head yet that is not how issues are resolved. They do not understand that as a representative of the people of Nairobi City County, I do not go to the table to present my issues. As the Speaker, you can confirm here that I am paid enough to be able to afford a packet of unga, even if it was sold at Kshs1000 but the people that I represent in Nairobi City County require that you get their message to that table. We were very clear, as the Azimio Coalition, from the beginning of this process, on what those issues were. Those issues were never about us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this matter kicked off by a public engagement at Jeevanji Gardens, which I attended in the company of the Principals of the Azimio Coalition. On that day, we identified four main issues that we believed needed to be discussed in a bipartisan manner. Number one was the cost of living; number two was a review of the"
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