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    "id": 147591,
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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Noor",
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        "legal_name": "Sophia Abdi Noor",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to support this Motion for three reasons. One, is because the Constitution allows us to have mobile Parliaments. Coming from a mobile society, I support this Motion. Secondly, I want to support the Motion because this is one way of us reaching out and understanding our nation. Thirdly, already our country is in reform mood. Due to that, we must transform the way we deal with our society. We must reach out and go out there in order to make sensible and meaningful changes in our country. For anybody to understand our country and to positively contribute to the development of our country, he must, first of all, understand the diversity, challenges and problems that are facing that particular region. For us to understand, we must go out, sit and eat with our people. I want to strongly disagree with my friend, Maj.Gen. Nkaisserry, when he tells us that when we go and sit under trees, we become a council of elders sitting under trees. How superior are we from the council of elders? The council of elders are the people we respect. They are our elders. They are people who have elected us and brought us to this House. We must appreciate their capacity because they are the ones who have taught us what we are doing. Being Members of this House, we must respect our councils of elders. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for us to positively and passionately contribute, we must understand that there are many challenges facing our country. When MPs bring Questions to this House, there are some who do not even understand them. They ask the technocrats, PCs and everybody at the grassroots level to inform them. I want to share with you that six years ago I was disseminating Millennium Development Goals (MDG). I went to a DC and told him that I was inviting him to open for us a workshop. He told me: “Madam, I do not even understand MDGs”. So, those are the people who are informing our leaders here. We need to get first hand information. We understand our regions. That is why I am supporting this Motion, so that we can go and understand those challenges. When we come back here, we will be able to contribute very effectively to any issue that comes on board. We should not look at ourselves as Kenyans coming from different regions, but as Kenyans. When Americans are contributing to their development, they consider themselves, first, as Americans. When a person in America stands up he says: “We Americans”. When I stand up, people look at me and say: “Tell me, are you a Somali.” I am not a Somali. I am a Kenyan. Everybody must appreciate that. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, a few days ago we, as MPs, were taking tea. I was shocked and surprised when one MP from this House asked me: “Madam Sophia, when you go to Moyale, do you pass through Ijara?” That is the geographical knowledge of MPs in this House. If we do not know where Ijara and Moyale are, it is the right time for all of us to go and learn the geography of our country."
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