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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, as we go to the next Order, I thank you for exhibiting maturity, decorum and decency in debating a rather emotive issue. The events of yesterday should alarm all of you and all of us Kenyans. We need to speak to each other and make our country safe. This morning, the leadership of this House joined ‘yours truly’ to meet a delegation from Nigeria, led by the Majority Leader of their Parliament. They have come to Kenya to learn from us on how we engineered our new Constitution. They have come to learn from us on how we are nurturing our democracy. What we saw yesterday is an anti-thesis of democracy. I urge all of us, everybody in the management of the affairs of the country and, more so, we the political class, it is wrong, unlawful, unconstitutional and unacceptable to take advantage of the poverty of our people to hire them and herd them to the streets to suffer untold harm. There was looting and burning of property in Dagoretti up to 8.00 p.m. last night. In Rongai, the same thing happened. Assuming the demonstrations have a timeline. You start in the morning at 10.00 a.m. and end by 5.00 p.m. or 6.00 p.m. I urge you, Hon. Members, and the legal team that advises the Speaker, to think seriously about a law that governs and protects demonstrations and demonstrators against infiltrations by wrong people who are hell-bent on doing wrong things. Next Order!"
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