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    "id": 194853,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Water and Irrigation",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in my view, I was expecting that, immediately this Motion landed to the ballot box; that when the House Business Committee sat down to vote for this Motion, the Leader of Government Business would have called Mr. Namwamba and asked him to give that chance to the Government to be able to move this Motion. I was hoping that the Attorney-General or Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs would have taken over the Motion by now, so that justice can be done to the people of Kenya and not only to this House. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, when the National Accord was being signed, if those who signed it really had Kenyans at heart, they would have moved it alongside this Motion that we are discussing today. That is the only true and surest way to ensure that democracy flourishes in this country. Section 1A of the Constitution of Kenya states clearly, that the Republic of Kenya shall be a multiparty democratic State. If we are really serious that we want this country to advance, and we do not want to experience the problems that we are having today, we must start respecting the Constitution. We must also always speak our mind. There is no way we have a Government without a vibrant Opposition. There is no way we can have a vibrant Opposition without an identity. We must give the Opposition an identity, so they can know where they are coming from. You cannot just help them to sit on the Opposition Benches and, yet, they are not co-ordinated. How do you co-ordinate them if they are not one? Give them an opportunity to be one. Let them have an identity. If you are not selfish and you know that you do not want to do bad things in the Government, then allow checks and balances. There is no way you can have checks and balances without a vibrant and strong opposition! This Government of the Grand Coalition is trying to suppress this Bill. This is a silent conspiracy to suffocate Kenyans, to suppress them and the voice of reason!"
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