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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I want to oppose this Motion. As the Leader of Government Business rightly put it, this House was convened ahead of its time. The reason for this was that the country needed accord and reconciliation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the House for having moved with speed to enact the two Bills, one of them being the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill. As you can see, there is still apprehension on both sides of this House. The apprehension is even greater outside this House. It would be an anti-climax of the mood that the House had gathered if we break now when we cannot answer our electorate the question as to how far we have gone with the implementation of the Bill that we had just passed. That is the question that will be asked everywhere across the country. I have been a politician for a short period, but I can tell you that when hon. Members go out there, and meet their electorate, that question will be posed to them. I can predict that different answers will come up. We are seeking to adjourn Parliament at a time when the mood out there is not yet right for our break. We are going to break when the mood inside here is not yet right for a break. I would have wished to see more bonding taking place, so that when we get out there, we can read from the same script and speak the same language about the National Accord and Reconciliation Act. Mr. Speaker, Sir, two weeks is a long time. It is my prediction that by the time we come back to this House, this country shall have slipped back from the gains we have made. It is against that background that I feel it would have been better if Kenyans were given the Cabinet ahead of this adjournment, so that Kenyans can see that we are not just a talk shop, but we can implement the laws we are enacting; by giving them a new Cabinet that reflects national accord and reconciliation. Against that background, I beg to oppose this Motion."
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