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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajembe",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Environment and Mineral Resources",
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        "legal_name": "Ramadhan Seif Kajembe",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. I am doing so because this is a very important time when hon. Members should go back to their respective constituencies to welcome back the IDPs, who have been taken back to their original homes. It is very important for hon. Members to receive the IDPs who are being resettled and tell them: \"We are very sorry; we are going to do this and that\". We must demonstrate some kindness. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government is doing its best to resettle the IDPs. What is wrong if your constituents were affected and you are there receiving them? That will be one way of telling them: \"Consider me for the 2012 general election\". We must be humble. It is not right for people to be resettled and we are just here debating various issues. Mr. Deputy Speaker, SIr, it has been a tradition that before the Budget is read by the Minister for Finance, hon. Members go on a recess, prepare themselves and come here fresh to debate the Budget. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us not take it that a grand opposition is already in this House. Hon. Members who are talking for the grand opposition are members of ODM(K), ODM and PNU, yet there is the Grand Coalition Government. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before a Bill to establish a grand Opposition coalition is brought to this House, it is unfair for any hon. Member to propose the view that he or she belongs to an Opposition party. I am very frank. Let me put it this way. The same Members of Parliament who are proud of forming the so-called grand Opposition coalition, when tomorrow the hon. President, Mwai Kibaki appoints them to the Cabinet, will be willing to become Ministers. They will not refuse that offer to serve in the Cabinet. They will not say: \"No, I belong to the Opposition\"."
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