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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Crystal Asige",
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    "content": "I urge and persuade those who have not yet spoken to also concur in opposing this Motion. It is not because of disrespect, but of respect for the young men and women who have lost lives and are now muted because they cannot speak due to yesterday's horrifying scenes. We cannot go home. Are we trying to say that renovations of windows and offices are more important than speaking for bloodshed and lives lost yesterday? We cannot. As the first young person speaking to this Motion, and a youth in this House, I am speaking for the youth who are outside of this House. We cannot go on a recess. It is wrong and it would be completely insensitive to do so. Mr. Speaker, Sir, darkness fears democracy. I rarely wake up in the morning wishing for my eyesight to be restored, but what a sight to be able to behold. This last week had me aching with desire to see my fellow youth in the most spectacular display of patriotism, camaraderie and putting up a first-rate master class on demanding that governments be held to account for the entire world to see and yes, they have seen. However, this unity has been violently gunned down in the streets, not by men, but by monsters who have no concern for human life. Although this Government has demonstrated that lifeless Kenyan bodies are not to take precedence over their punitive Finance Bill, young Kenyans have looked their oppressor dead in the eye and shown them that when it comes down to the wire, there are only two times to be brave. When you feel like it, and when you do not. My profound disappointment with the current Government and its forceful assault on crowds of innocent youth, by its nefarious police officers who have gone rogue on unarmed young citizens, peacefully exercising their constitutional right towards an uncaring, corrupt, and wasteful Government in their eyes that has turned its back on them, cannot be emphasized enough. The brutal force used against young, unarmed protesters reveals the operating system built into the fabric of today's Government. When they kill us they are killing themselves. The arrogance from some of these top Government officials has been outrageously condescending to young people, disgusting and reminiscent of narcissistic abuse. You call us wankers and clueless children of plunderers. Then you say you are proud of us for making our voices heard peacefully. Then abduct defenseless children using State machinery and escalate a peaceful demonstration of young people with phones, twigs, and water bottles in their hands into barbaric scenes of bloodshed. Young people were not out to kill. In fact, I was here on this premises yesterday when everything set off. Whilst I was separated from my security guard, I also saw another MP from the National Assembly who is on a wheelchair user, who voted ‘yes’ to the Finance Bill, also having been separated from his team, aides and bodyguard. He was stranded. He could not run nor hide in his wheelchair. Do you know what happened when those kids entered this premises? Three young boys saw this MP who voted ‘yes’ for the Finance Bill and instead of reprimanding him or giving him a piece of their minds, they actually carried this MP in The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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