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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Olago",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I sat down here listening to the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, hon. Chris Okemo, as I looked at the demeanour and the submissions done by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, I got convinced that, indeed, I should now support this Motion. I had come here with the mind that this Motion must be defeated. However, after listening very carefully, I want to say that this House needs time to think very careful about the issues we have before us. Why do I say so? In the conflict situation, where interests and passions are as high as we have heard today and yesterday in this House, we need time to think, time to give and time to take. If we do not do so, we cannot take. I do know as I stand here that there are friends of mine both in front of me and at my back who are very sad with what I am saying but I think the truth must told. What lessons are we learning as Members of this House, from the acrimony that we had yesterday and today? What acrimony are we having? What lessons are we learning? The lessons that we are learning, in my view, is that when we are dealing with these issues, as Members of this House, we need sometimes to step back one step behind and look at what we need to do. I say so, because I am fully aware that some of the reasons that we have heard here did not resonate at all with me and the fact that we may need time to go back to our constituencies does not convince me at all. We go to our constituencies every week. The fact that we have worked very hard does not resonate with me at all. We have worked very hard. Now it is the time to know those of us in this House who have stayed in power; it is time to know those of us who can work overboard and who can go the extra mile. I think the time has come, if want to move forward in this country, to be able to listen to each other and reason together. Let us take that chance to do so."
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