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    "id": 1442460,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I respectfully oppose this Motion. This is the time when we should come together in a bipartisan manner to reason together on how to resolve the many issues that our children - I am calling them children, not in a derogatory manner, but because I am a mother raising Gen Zs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the events that happened yesterday in this country are historic. It is not because the young people managed to break into Parliament, but because it was a big statement about how Parliament has failed. The sooner we understand that, the better for us. Our sense of importance is so inflated as Members of Parliament (MPs) that we do not even get the point. We need to come down. I have said here more than four times that we must remember we are messengers of the people; we are not lords of the people. Yesterday was the moment to make every MP reflect and remember that we are here to represent and not about ourselves. The Gen Zs and the other young people who were on the streets form over 75 per cent of the population of Kenya. Therefore, we need to listen to them, whether we like it or not. If we do not like it, we will be driven out of these Houses. That is why my view is that we cannot run away. We need to be here to discuss the issues. We might want to suggest that we focus on different issues rather than what we have on the Order Paper. We can use the two weeks to discuss pertinent issues on what the Gen Zs have raised in their concerns."
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