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    "id": 1519538,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to mention to my brother, the Senator from Bungoma, that normally when people go to watch football games, that is how they behave. However, when people go to an international conference and they are trying to negotiate and influence other people to vote for their candidate, they behave differently. I know you love football. You may not see the contradiction. It is true for many of us that for me, Prime Minister Raila losing that seat was a shock, but I saw him accept the verdict gracefully. I would like to state to my colleagues in this House that if such an occasion comes back again, because it could, please, let us make sure we do a thorough job. Let us consult the ambassadors, former ambassadors and the technical personnel. We could have done it better. Is it true that I knew this? No, I did not. I am just saying, when you go to play and you have scored many goals, then you have to figure out what to do with the team, especially with the team manager. I would like to give one last comment. I have no problem if the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and my leader Raila decide to join the Government of the day. I understand the complexity of Kenyan politics. Besides, I heard somebody say, “give me something that I can be proud of.” Give me democracy. Make sure we minimise our corruption. Stop using negative ethnicity of turning around and saying that because you have disagreed with people who you had struck a dealing with and, indeed, by the way, I listen to this House severally. Some of these contradictions we have are a consequence of the broken system of our governance structure. Why is it that every five years the Deputy President is fighting with his President? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, why is it that we are not able to deal with the dysfunctionality of our financials in this Republic? How can we say that Kenya is a great country when you know we are in debt, we cannot finish our railway, and the revenue we are collecting we do not even know what is happening; the county governments are having a problem, then you expect me to have something to be proud of? I am proud to be a Kenyan, yes, but I expect more. I expect better from all of us. Stop cheering around and singing how you think now power has come to your hands. You are going to employ your relatives and cousins. No! We now need intelligent people to sit down and guide the President and the former Prime Minister to make sure this country runs in the direction where we can be fully proud and happy that we are moving as a team. Stop alienating some communities because of political disagreements. Sit with them and talk with them. Senate Majority Leader, are you not sitting with the gentleman there with big hair? I wanted to make a reference. Thank you."
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