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    "speaker_name": "Mavoko, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Patrick Makau",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance. At the onset, allow me to give a thumbs-up to one Hon. Eckomas Mwengi Mutuse. I give him a thumbs-up for executing this Motion and showing Kenyans that leadership is not about where you come from or who you are but how you perform your duties. This morning, I heard many speakers talk about this Motion. I agree with those who spoke earlier. Yesterday and the week before, I was watching the Deputy President of this country doing rallies in towns and going to churches. What we saw on Sunday was different from what we saw yesterday. I want to advise us as politicians. Sometimes we should listen to the right advisers. If I were to advise the Deputy President, yesterday’s interview was his undoing. He proved to Kenya that all the accusations being levelled against him are true. I confirm to this House that despite Article 10 of the Constitution, the Deputy President, who is supposed to own the values of this nation by uniting Kenyans, fighting against corruption and tribalism, is the one who has championed tribalism through and through. As the Member for Mavoko, I have spoken the word ‘Kenya’ many times than the Deputy President of this country. All I have been hearing is murima, murima, murima, murima, murima . I want to tell Kenyans that Parliament has been prosecuted in many words. We have been called names, and it has been said that we are a non-performing House. Today I stand here as the legislator of Mavoko. Why am I charging the Deputy President with the offence of tribalism? At one time, I listened to the Deputy President on national television saying that he reversed a Cabinet decision on the demolitions in Mathare. Why did he do that? He said his people were in Mathare and, therefore, he could not sit and see his people’s houses being demolished. It reminded me of when houses of the people of Mavoko were being demolished. I personally went to him, thinking that he would help me but the words he used are unprintable and I cannot say them in this House. Today I want to tell him that 30 per cent of the houses that were demolished belonged to the people of mlima. They belonged to Kenyans. I come from a cosmopolitan constituency. As I stand here, we have lost lives. There are people whose properties had to be auctioned because they had taken loans to build those houses. As a legislator, I humbled myself and asked the Deputy President to intervene so that those houses could be spared. The entire The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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