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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Otuoma",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Funyula",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to continue from where I left. Just before the House was adjourned, I was saying that, as a nation, we need to respect each other. As a nation, we need to value our cultural diversity, so that we can hold our country together. I know that we have had hard words for each other. We have had bitter words and very unpleasant feelings towards each other, but let us sacrifice all these feelings and forgive each other. Let us stand with Kenya and support it. Let us, please, start the healing process and bring 266 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 19, 2008 peace and tranquillity in our homes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my conclusion, I want to say that, in my opinion, the weaknesses in the pillars of the foundation of this nation are basically corruption and dishonesty. It is corruption that makes the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) not to know who won the Kenyan election. It is corruption that has brought about long-standing injustices where people feel that the land of this country was not properly allocated. It is corruption that make us suspend judges and still use the very same laws to appoint other judges. It is corruption that has condemned our brothers and sisters into an economic slump of our major towns. It is corruption that mutilated our Constitution and has denied us an opportunity to come up with a new Constitution that will stand the test of time. I concur with the President's Speech when he says that this Parliament carries a big burden. It is a very big responsibility for us to legislate for the common good of all Kenyans. I echo the words of hon. Murungi when he said that we should not be very myopic when we hold positions to only think about ourselves and our positions. We must do our duties as patriots. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Albert Einstein once said that the significant problems that we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. We are faced with a lot of challenges as Kenyans, and we have to rise to this occasion. We need to have a leadership that is going to re-energise this country and mobilise the resources of this country for our common good, so that no Kenyan will feel that there are injustices and there is no equity in terms of the distribution of resources of this country. I want to quote one great historian who said that: \"A successful community or society is one which is able to respond to the challenges that it faces\". This has been exemplified by what we saw when we were faced with challenges when our two leaders came together to try and give this country some hope. I want to compare duplicitous or people who have been undermining our systems to HIV/AIDS. We all know very well that HIV/AIDS does not kill, but it undermines the immune system, so that the body is unable to overcome diseases that it normally overcomes. They attack the system. I can compare duplicitous, corrupt and dishonest people to HIV/AIDS because they are the ones who are undermining the unity and the prosperity of this country. With those few remarks, I beg to support the Motion."
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