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    "id": 1519869,
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    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also want to join my colleagues in congratulating our Head of State, His Excellency William Samoei Ruto, and the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. I have had the fortune and experience of working with Raila for over 30 years. Regardless of whether you like him or not, one thing you must acknowledge is his energy and passion for transformational politics. As one of the original founding members of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party, I campaigned with His Excellency President William Ruto during the 2007 elections when we were in the same party. He has a lot of energy, passion, wisdom and good intentions for this country. I did not have the opportunity of meeting the President's late father, but I had the opportunity of working with the Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga's late father in Parliament. Until when he took his last breath, he was working with us in Parliament like any other young man. Even in his advanced age, he would still discuss with us current matters in our political sphere, including all the Bills in Parliament because we were from the same party. It is a pity that we see ourselves as “hyphenated Kenyans.” We demonise hard work, wisdom, aspiration, ambition and achievement by looking at where a person comes from. We suffer from the same things. When we work very hard as a community, it is said out there that the Somali Community is taking over the country and that they are doing very well. This endeavour should have made every Kenyan proud. People should appreciate that other Kenyans are doing very well in terms of development, entrepreneurship, athletics and academia. I represent a constituency which houses in excess of 450,000 refugees. Those people are from the same tribe, ethnicity, religion and religious denomination within Islam. There are four denominations within the Sunni Muslims. One of them is the Shafi’i . Even then, the amount of mayhem, destruction and suffering in a failed State is unimaginable and incalculable. I want to warn my Kenyan brothers and sisters, starting with Members of Parliament, not to divide our country. Look at the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since Mobutu Sese Sseko was overthrown, they have lost about six million lives, and there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg you to give me two more minutes if you can. We have 44 nations in this country with different languages, looks and in different regions. I have travelled from one end of Somalia to the other."
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