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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Onyonka",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Richard Momoima Onyonka",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you read Prof. Maathai’s book she has a very interesting quote in it. One of the quotes she has made is that “any time you see war in Africa, people are fighting over resources.” This is a clear case where if the communities of Turkana, Rendille and Samburu were never consulted and they have not been told why this dam is being built and its effects on them as communities, we expect them to hit back. I am aware – and in this case I am fortunate because I happen to be the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs but, at the same time, I am also a Member of this House - that I have participated in some of the meetings that have discussed that river. I would like to tell my colleagues that, under no uncertain terms must we relent or give out our sovereignty by allowing Ethiopia which, frequently, has said how they are our good neighbours, to make our people suffer. In fact, they say that we should be friendly with them yet, nearly every two weeks, Kenyans are being killed from across the border from Ethiopia."
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