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    "id": 1519185,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "This SHA thing is a problem. In some counties, like Nyamira, we are burying people on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. We used to do burials only on Friday. We represent our people. We cannot sit here and shut our mouths from some of these issues. Finally, is the impact of Raila’s loss in our country. We should guard our mouths at times. I listened to my good friend, Sen. Cherarkey. It is unfortunate that he is not here. He was making statements saying that now that Raila Amolo Odinga has lost the AU chairmanship, we want to offer him the position of Prime Minister. Cherarkey or Nelson Koech are not the right people to tell ODM what position to be given. If the President wants to give the former Prime Minister the position of Prime Minister, he should do it in a manner that respects the Constitution first. I sat in NADCO and we made a recommendation and even gave powers to that office of Prime Minister. If the President wants Raila Odinga to get that position, the right thing to do is to fully implement that NADCO report. He should not send junior Senators like Sen. Cherarkey to go make announcements in the streets. That is not the way you enhance unity in our country. If that position needs to be there, let it be entrenched in the Constitution. Let there be a discussion on who should occupy that seat through party organs, but not through talk shows on televisions and making pronouncements through the media. That is demeaning. It will send the wrong signals that there is no good faith from our President on this matter that was meant to take Raila to be the chairperson of AU. As I finish, I join the Ugandans in making an appeal to President Yoweri Museveni to ensure that Besigye is released from prison. If you read a book called “Red Notice”, you will think that the episodes captured in that book about the happenings in Russia under Putin are playing out in our neighbouring country. We want within the East Africa Community (EAC) to respect human rights, show love and tolerance to our opponents. We urge our senior statesman in the region, President Yoweri Museveni, to have sympathy and a soft heart on that leader of opposition called Besigye. I hope the unfortunate thing will not happen, where Besigye will die because he has not been able to get medical help under the watch of President Yoweri Museveni. With those remarks, I support. I thank you."
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