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    "id": 255781,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "The referendum outcome showed that we need each other as people of the same nation. It is because of that, that I want to appeal to hon. Members on the other side to recognise the diversity of our nation and that we may disagree on very fundamental issues, but we still belong to the same country called Kenya. At Independence, our founding fathers coined what they called the \"Kenyan dream.\" The Kenyan dream was to create a society that would guarantee freedom, the right of life and pursuit of happiness for each and every citizen of our country. They also wanted to see Kenya being a developed country by the year 1990. I remember that the late hon. Gikonyo Kiano, as the Minister for Water, said that by the year 1990, every household in our country would have running water. The late Ronald Ngala, as Minister in charge of sports, when he led the Kenyan team to Mexico City in 1968, said that Kenya would hold the 1980 Olympic Games. At that time, it was not considered a joke. However, recently, when hon. Ochillo-Ayacko, as the Minister in charge of sports, announced that Kenya wanted to hold Olympic Games in 2016, many people said it was a big joke. Why did that happen? It happened because the Kenyan dream, after Independence, has been betrayed and has never been realised. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we sat down to write the NARC manifesto in 2002, we anchored the manifesto on the Kenyan dream. It said that we wanted to bring this nation back on track so that we can realise the Kenyan dream. Unfortunately, we have not been able to steer the course that we charted out in 2002. We have defaulted on our mission and given this country a raw deal. One is on the issue of the Constitution. We all agree and concede that we have failed. The other is the issue of corruption. While I agree with the President that there is a time to deal with \"new corruption,\" there was nothing to stop us from dealing with \"old corruption\" in 2003, 2004 and 2005. We had no genuine commitment to deal with the \"old corruption.\" I think that hon. Members are not wholly to blame for this. We know that last year, we had the referendum to deal with and, therefore, the House suffered lack of quorum very many times. You can say that there was a force majeure . This Parliament has been on recess from November last year, up to now and hon. Members have been kept out of business through no fault of their own."
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