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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion. I want to agree with my younger brother, hon. Salat, that we will need to put some legal mechanisms in place to clearly define the Opposition and the Government. This is a transitional period and we do not need to carry over the confusion of this period into the next dispensation. However, I want to advise him gratuitously, as he was trying to advise His Excellency the President, that only Ministers and Assistant Ministers swear to advise the President. Any other Member of Parliament is under no obligation, especially when they are practising double speak, to tell the President not to do what they themselves do. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Parliament will need to sit down and decide how to handle issues that have come because of transition, especially the issue of corruption. It has been made to look like this Government bears the burden and guilt of corruption when the perpetrators are pretending to be the high priests. We need to sit down and see how we can rid this country of this problem corruption, so that the next dispensation becomes a new one. Finally, may I thank all Kenyans for the mature manner in which they conducted themselves during the just ended by-elections. We are very grateful that the new-born baby is now healthy and bouncing. I am talking about NARC(K), of which I am a serious sympathiser. We are happy and we congratulate Kenyans. They know what work the Government has been able to do for them. They also know what kind of people are in Government. I urge them to continue supporting the new-born baby. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those many words, I beg to support."
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