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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Bifwoli",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Bumula",
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        "legal_name": "Sylvester Wakoli Bifwoli",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me use this chance to contribute towards the Presidential Speech. First of all, I want to take this chance to congratulate you for being elected the Speaker of the Tenth Parliament. I also would like to take this chance to thank the people of Bumula for electing me again. So many of them voted for me that I have no doubt that the people of Bumula have faith in me. I want to take this chance to thank them. With regard to the Presidential Speech and what happened after the 2007 General Election, I would like to take this chance to thank the President and the Prime Minister-designate for the bold step they took. It takes brave men to do what Mr. Raila and His Excellency hon. Mwai Kibaki did. This is because they swallowed their pride. Raila's group was saying that its votes were stolen, while Kibaki's group was saying that it had won. However, Raila and Kibaki never listened to some of us who thought they won or votes were stolen. The two leaders took a bold step and signed the National Accord and, therefore, brought calm. According to me, they just put us in a calm situation. It is now up to us Kenyans to examine why there was no peace. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we should look at why people started killing each other; why a neighbour suddenly rose against a neighbour. This is the only time we have been presented with an opportunity to put the law in place so that tomorrow, so-and-so does not rise against so-and-so and start killing in the name of elections or something else. We should put the law in place in such a way that those who kill others also suffer a little. As much as we want to reconcile, now that we assume that there is peace in the country, are we imagining that the old lady I read about in the newspapers; the one who was trying to run away from an aggressor who had snatched her child and thrown it into fire---The lady knows who threw the child into the fire. Here, we are saying that we have brought peace. Have we really brought peace in the mind of that lady who saw the man who took her child and threw it into the fire to burn to death? When we think deeply, we will realise that this country had been invaded by devils. Perhaps we need to conduct national prayers so that those who participated in the wars or fights could come forward to confess publicly. Maybe that is the best way to bring peace in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, peace is something that is supposed to come from an individual and not collectively. What the two principals did remains a challenge to them. President Kibaki and Mr. Raila should visit those victims because people were killed for their sake. Now they are making 316 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 20, 2008 merry in Nairobi and yet people are suffering in Eldoret and Kisumu! These people have lost their property, but President Kibaki and Mr. Raila are seated in Harambee House trying to share out slots!"
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