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"speaker_name": "Mr. Bett",
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"content": "I want to thank my constituents who are, indeed, great people, for electing me to serve them for the first time in this House. I undertake and promise to work for them with all the might, capacity and energy that is in me, so that they can get value for their votes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the President for the Speech that he made. I want to offer a recommendation to that Speech, as a former speech-writer myself. There is need to put a human face in the Speech so that, when it comes out, it is directed to the people, who are human beings. That is the only recommendation that I would like to make to the speech-writer of the President; put in some humour, excitement and some lines so that, as President Mwai Kibaki reads it out there, the people are in touch with him; the people who are listening are linked with him! That is what I would say is a great speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to thank the President and hon. Raila Odinga for coming together as great statesmen and thinking that this country is bigger than themselves. None of us here is greater than this country. We all are below this country. I want to thank the two men and describe them reverently as people who will live to be remembered by this generation and generations to come, for taking time to think about what was going on in the country, and that it was in the interest of this country to come together. So, I will say in one Swahili word, hongera, to the two great men of this country. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to note something out of that Speech. As one colleague said, the recruitment into the army and police must continue as it used to be. I want an announcement that the police will be recruited in Bureti Constituency and not through the National Youth Service (NYS). We are already reading mischief in that move. We are already seeing that there are complaints from the police force and, sure enough, there will be complaints from the army. Let it be done the way it has always been done; the way the Kenyan people have always known. That way, there will be order, respect and discipline in each of the forces. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in my part of the world, there is a story that is told of an antelope. The antelope is smoked out of its hiding place by the hunters and once it is killed, it is said that the antelope will not blame the person who killed it. It will blame the person who smoked it out of its hiding place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the post-election violence was not caused by the people who were involved in the violence. The violence was caused by the people who \"stole\" the vote in the first place!"
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