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    "id": 1506764,
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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) James Nyikal",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We are talking about a very important issue in the country. I thank Hon. Junet for bringing this. It is true that I do not feel proud as a Member of Parliament when I walk around. It is because of the things that I hear. The church is calling us out. They may not themselves be right. However, we want to take one thing: We are elected to represent the people; we carry the burdens of the people. Indeed, a society will point at the people it has elected when a society goes wrong without realising that the people may be representing the society as it is. There may be something when we are called out. As much as we would like to call on the church, I will end up by saying one thing and suggesting two things to our leadership. Do we have a public relations department that looks at issues and points out what we need to do? We should engage that. Secondly, the leadership of this House should actually commission a very serious study, go to the public and find out why the public feels as it does about us. When the facts are available, as representatives of people and as leaders, we must face them squarely and address them. I do not think we are angels. Instead of bashing the church loudly in public, we should look at ourselves. There are problems on both sides of the society. We should look at ourselves and the church should look at themselves. As leaders, it is our duty to lead in this process and find out why the church is talking as it is talking about us, and face those issues that we find out. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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