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    "id": 1456540,
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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": " Thank you, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this historic Supplementary Budget. Before I go to the Budget, yesterday was a very sad day for my county. There were demonstrations and we saw residential areas like Pipeline and Zimmerman in Roysambu being tear-gassed. Those are highly congested and populous areas. I spoke to the Member of Parliament for Roysambu this morning, Hon. Mwafrika. He was equally disturbed by what happened. I spoke to the acting Inspector-General of Police Service, Mr Douglas Kanja, and the Nairobi Regional Commander, Mr Bungei. Mr Bungei told me that it becomes very difficult for the police when people try to go to protected areas, some of which have fuel depots. If people tamper with them, they may cause more damage. This takes me back to what is going on in the Middle East. We see women and children casualties in a war that should not have happened. I would like to tell the Gen. Zs that they have done something historic in this country. They are our children. I have two Gen. Zs in my family and almost every Member of Parliament here has a Gen. Z in their households. We listen to them, and we understand where they are coming from. They came out to the streets because the first thing they wanted was for the Finance Bill 2024 to be withdrawn, and it was. They wanted the President to go on X, and the President did that. They also wanted the Cabinet to be dismissed, and the President did that. Now there is a hue and cry about why the same people have been nominated to the Cabinet. At one point, I asked the Gen. Zs to compile a list of the people they would like to help the leadership. Such a list was not forthcoming. At the end of the day, this is a constitutionally elected Government. People voted for their representatives who are in this House. We have the opportunity to vote every five years. If you do not want to wait for five years, you cannot disrupt the entire country. We have seen enough blood shed. I heard the Generation Zs say that they are not responsible for the bloodshed. They said it is the police. We saw the infiltration of the Generation Zs movement by goons. The people that came to Roysambu last night were not from that constituency. The constituency was peaceful during the day and they reigned terror at night. So, as a country, we have to always search for peace. We have seen enough bloodshed. Right now, the Government has formed a broad-based Cabinet. I believe that, together, we can steer this country in the right direction. There are so many things in the Azimio Coalition Manifesto that can complement the Government. I know that Baba has the interest of all the Generation Zs at heart. The existence of the ODM Party is now 19.5 years, which is a Generation Z year. Generation Zs are 12 to 26-year- olds. The 12-year-olds are in school. We cannot distract their education every day. We have many people who are unemployed. The unemployed and employed people are having challenges. There has been cancellations and job cuts. We need to put this country in the right direction."
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