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    "id": 191445,
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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Shabesh",
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        "legal_name": "Rachel Wambui Shebesh",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have come here to support this Motion and I will not repeat what my colleagues have said. But I must say that we are in a Grand Coalition Government which was formed on a 50-50 basis. As you know, I am a nominated Member of Parliament and I have no constituency. My constituency is ODM. I stand here to support and speak on behalf of ODM that, when we came into the Grand Coalition Government, we did not come into a grand collusion! We came to work together to, at least, see whether those contested elections - and they were really contested elections--- We wanted to make sure that we bring forward what we had in our Manifesto of ODM to the people of Kenya. One of the things we had in our Manifesto was zero-tolerance to corruption. If this Grand Coalition Government was to preach to Kenyans that it is serious, what is being discussed here is more serious than what the Minister is trying to make it look like. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say this: This issue has brought to the fore the lack of confidence by the Kenyan people in the structures of this Government. When we came to form this Grand Coalition Government, we did it to save the people of Kenya. We did it to stop the bloodshed. But we did not expect this Government to put in place structures that would allow such things as we are seeing today to happen. When we are touching on this issue, we are also touching on the Office of Aaron Ringera, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman, which we also have no confidence in! We are also touching on the Attorney-General, Mr. Amos Wako, who says that he had no idea what was going on. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, really, then, what is his role? That also brings to the fore the Office of the Attorney-General. We also talk about the Central Bank of Kenya. It is amazing that such an issue could bring up lack of credibility in so many structures that the people depend on. I, therefore, beg to support this Motion and also emphasize that it is about time the Grand Coalition Government puts its house in order and really showed the confidence that we tried to portray when we came together. But so far, they are not proving to us that they are working July 2, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1611 together. If the statement by the Minister for Lands is true, and I want to believe it was true unless he proves otherwise - he said that he did not know about the sale of Grand Regency - then something is cooking in this Grand Coalition! With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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