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    "id": 1519025,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "to Raila Odinga for you to run around claiming that you are looking for a position to accommodate him. As I said, he is not idle. I want to conclude by saying that we are extremely proud of Raila Amolo Odinga. Some of us chose not to be emotionally invested in this particular campaign because we have been through painful moments. I was elected for the first time as the Senator for Nairobi City County in 2022. I never got an opportunity to celebrate that win because my party leader had lost the most important position that we wanted to get. We were depressed. When you see us here, we might appear to the public as if we are rocks but we are not. These things have effects on us as people. We want to be left alone. We want people to respect our father Raila Odinga because every time you pick him up for other charades like the ones that people are proposing here, when ultimately it does not work, it is the people who believe in him who bear the brunt of the pain. Those people were not there with us. In fact, some of these people proposing some of the things here are inwardly happy and want to drag Raila Odinga into another charade that is going nowhere. We want to tell the people of Kenya that it is only you with the power to determine the future of Baba Raila Amolo Odinga. Nobody has the right to tell anyone in this country to retire or get out because you are not the one who put him into politics. Allow Baba to make the decision himself. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir if you allow me, because my time is over, I want to read a quotation from Martin Luther King Jnr. This quotation hangs on the walls of Raila Odinga's office in Upper Hill. Sen. Eddy, please, if you can hand me my phone so that I do not move from here. There are people who have been threatening us that when we say these things, they think, oh, you are going to be kicked out from where, from what position. These positions are not permanent. They are here today and tomorrow, they are gone."
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