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    "id": 204299,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
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        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me those the hon. Members who have contributed to this very important Motion. As I said earlier when I was moving the Motion, I am not looking at it the way some of my colleagues are doing. When there is something bad happening, it is better for us to come up and correct it. For example, if you go to Tanzania and ask a Tanzanian which tribe he or she comes from, the first question that he will put to you is whether you are a Kenyan. We do not want some thing like this to continue. It is true that the able Minister actually tabled certain documents in this House, which had names of those who were employed by Telkom (K) Limited. But I told him at that time that the list which he tabled here had already been rendered useless, because Telkom (K) Limited had already declared about 8,000 employees redundant and terminated their services. So, that list could not have seen the inside of this House simply because those who were purported to be employed by Telkom (K) Limited were not actually on the payroll. The reason why my colleagues on the Government side are trooping in is because they want to defeat this Motion simply because of the forthcoming general election. But they know--- I have been approached and told by my colleagues from the Government side that, \"yes, this Motion is very good, but we are going to defeat it because we are going for the general election.\" It is better for us to be honest with ourselves. There is something which is going on here and we have to come up and---"
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