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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabando wa Kabando",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me permission to contribute to this very important Motion. I would like to set the background of the points that I am going to make. They are five. One, when the Chief Justice was nominated without consultations, this House made a ruling. We saw people congregating as political parties. We saw press conferences on the stairs of Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Some of us, despite belonging to the side of PNU, stood our ground. We penned very passionate articles and we said that on this particular matter, we will defy the President because we think it was a mistake. When the Ringera issue was brought to the House, there was clarion call that people from certain areas must protect Ringera because he comes from the windward side. Some of us stood our ground and said: “We may come from the windward side of Mt. Kenya, but we refuse to be congregated on the basis of our ethnicity.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, there must be decisions that must go beyond our party affiliations and even our ethnicities. The new order has to crash the old order for us to create a template that will give ourselves, our children and future generations the opportunity to enjoy what we bequeath them. We want a legislative agenda which is clean and enduring. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this morning, and I know this matter is before you and you will be ruling on it, we saw an attempt to debate issues before the House through some parliamentary groups. I want to reiterate the advice we and a number hon. Members gave, that we will not take orders because we are serving in the Executive. On issues before the House, it is not the President, the Prime Minister or the Leader of Government Business in the House--- Who is the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs to give orders or instructions on what needs to be done? If Members of Parliament have to be enriched on what they have to contribute to the House, there are issues that can be done through caucuses, e-mails and other correspondences that can enrich our contribution. So, the message that must come is that there are issues that are beyond political parties and those parliamentary groups. In conclusion of my background, there are issues before the House that must go beyond our ethnic group. I am not naming any ethnic group but it disheartens many times when a matter comes, you are caucusing and calling for a meeting. You will not create a nation or even your career by appearing parochial and petty on issues that are very national. These are things that we see."
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