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"speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the Motion before the House. I would like to congratulate the President for his Address to this House exposing the public policy and our legislative programme. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me begin by thanking the people of Dagoretti for giving me a third chance to serve them. This is my third term in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is sad that the people of Dagoretti never had the chance to celebrate. After giving me an overwhelming vote of 38,000, and defeating my closest rival by more than 14,000 votes, some hired goons came to the hall in Dagoretti and never allowed me in there, or even to be declared the winner in the hall. Indeed, the result was never announced in the hall. It had to be announced by the Returning Officer, under tight security, at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Already some media houses had broadcast that I had lost the election long before the tallying was done. That is what I experienced, and that is why I feel sad. The whole world was deceived to believe that elections were stolen. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in actual fact, what we experienced in Dagoretti was a situation where my vote was reduced and later on put back by 11,000, and other people being announced as having won. In the process the President's votes in Dagoretti alone were reduced by 18,000. So, it is my hope that the truth will finally come out. I would like to urge the committee that is looking into what really went wrong in the presidential vote to even look at what went wrong in the whole exercise. They should not follow blindly the reports of the international media, which was geared to labelling Kenya and her leadership, as thieves. They should not be misled, because for the first time the Fourth Estate, which I used to belong to, certainly did not live up to its name. They were partisan. The pictures which were shown of Kenyans as savages cutting one another, in the international media and here, are never shown anywhere else by the media in the world. Even when the attack in New York happened, we all watched televisions but did not see bloody scenes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those foreigners wanted to show us as lesser beings, and we played into their hands. I hope it will never happen again. It did not leave any of us proud. Whenever you travel out there, you will still be a Kenyan. They will not say you are on this side or that side. We must, at all costs, protect our image. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, last week I saw a programme \"insight in history\", which comes on the national broadcaster, the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). The grand late old man, whom I have a lot of respect for, because I spent a lot of time with him when I was a young girl, a wise man, the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, said that our colonial masters were never happy at our success."
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