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    "id": 147594,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Odhiambo",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Bwire Odhiambo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I wish to support this Motion. In supporting this Motion, I would want to add my voice to those Members who have said that, as Members, we must familiarize and acquaint ourselves with the realities of this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a lot of inequality in this country. Fortunately, my background in the civil society enabled me to see quite a bit of this country. I am therefore, able to know that certain myths that we have--- For instance, for most people when you talk of Central or Eastern provinces, they believe all the areas are fertile and everybody does well. I had the privilege of travelling to a place like Tharaka and if you blind-folded me and took me there, then opened my eyes, I would think I am in my own village. This is because these two places face the same challenges and problems. They have bad roads, bad terrain, poor rainfall and all that. One other reason that we need to familiarize ourselves with the country is many of us do not know most parts of this country. Despite the fact that I have travelled well in this country, when I came to this Parliament, I still had the opportunity to travel to areas that I had not been able to. The Liaison Committee had a sitting in one of the Northern Kenya towns. That was my first time to go there. I am, therefore, able to appreciate the challenges. There is lack of water and the level of drought and poverty in those areas is high. When somebody brings an issue from that area, I am able not just to speak from book knowledge but with empathy because I have first- hand knowledge. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, even recently when we visited Mbooni, we were told that it was only two hours drive away. Yes, it was two hours of pure torture because of poor roads. If we did not have the opportunity to go there, we would never have known what challenges that area faces. Even within Nyanza Province where I come from, I recently had the opportunity to travel to one of the homecoming parties in Nyatike Constituency. I was informed that there is a place called Wuoth Ogik . This means the journey is over. It is called so because it is so far and the roads are so far, such that when you reach there, the journey must truly be over. We must be able to go from where the journey begins, if at all it begins anywhere, to where it ends. I would also want to support this Motion because it will help demystify leadership. One of the reasons that I am saying it---"
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