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    "id": 1581496,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have moved a Motion concerning what happened yesterday in our beloved country. We were all in the country, yesterday. We had a Sitting in the Morning, where we passed very important business of the country. As explicitly written in the Motion, Kenyans have a right to demonstrate. Under Article 37 of the Constitution, every Kenyan has a right to demonstrate. One of the things we have given ourselves in the Constitution is the strongest Bill of Rights in the world. Secondly, I sympathise with the people who lost their lives in demonstrations that were held yesterday, and the previous ones. It is not good for Kenyans to lose their lives in that manner. We sympathise and want justice for them so that anybody who might have committed any crime, is brought to book. What happened yesterday in our country was not the normal demonstrations. It was not a Gen. Z demonstration. It was a political event that was meant to overthrow the Constitution and the existing Government of this country. You could see the way people had been mobilised. We have been demonstrating since Independence, especially people like me who belong to the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party. When you want to demonstrate nationally, you allow everyone to demonstrate in their respective counties and sub-counties. You do not move people from one county to come to Nairobi to demonstrate. The kind of ethnic mobilisation we saw yesterday was something else. It was not a demonstration. Why do you carry people all the way from Kiambu, Thika Road, Thika, Murang’a and Juja to bring them to Nairobi to demonstrate, as though there are no people who live in Nairobi? What happens if I was to bring people from Migori and Homa Bay to demonstrate here? What happened yesterday was ethnic mobilisation to fight and overthrow the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya."
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