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    "id": 1568094,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support this Motion by the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Junet. Even as I speak, I am a very sad person. First of all, the former Deputy President needs to be sued for destroying the image of Christmas in the children of this country by equating the 2007 post-election violence to a Christmas party. Some of us have family members whose homes were ruined in Kericho and they walked to Nyamira. We have a family whose home was destroyed in Kisumu. They walked back to Kisii because of what happened in 2007. We have Kenyans who were in Naivasha and the Rift Valley who lost their homes. Some of them were burnt. Very serious things happened during that particular time. People are still suffering from the injuries, both emotional and physical, that happened to them in 2007. When the former Deputy President said it was a Christmas party, he was already pre-empting to us, as a country, that we would go back to that kind of anarchy. The children who were born in that year, 2007, are now turning 18 years old. You can imagine how that would feel to them come the year 2027, and then we are told that whatever happened before was like a Christmas party. I am just imagining that this same person was summoned to go and speak to the things that he said, but he refused. He does not follow or plan to obey the rule of law. What kind of example is that kind of leader giving to our young people in this country? The reason we have the Supreme Court in place and allocation for anyone who is aggrieved by the general election to go to the Supreme Court is because we are a country that follows the rule of law. Kenya is a very fantastic example to the rest of the African countries and the rest of the world in how we manage our political process. I support this Motion because I cannot imagine in any way, as a country and the young people in this country, that we can be taken back to what happened in 2007. Anyone who supports that kind of utterance, shame on you. I support the Motion."
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