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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": "of an issue that can even be cured by an amendment proposed by the Members. We should understand things the way they are and try to rise above party lines. The reason this is a party sponsored Motion is not because it is a coalition Motion, the way the Leader of Majority Party was making it look. The reason why Members sometimes get permission from their coalition Whips so that a matter is raised as a party sponsored Motion is to take precedence over other items on the agenda. This underlines how serious this issue is. I have seen people think that this is a CORD Motion or an opposition Motion and so on. People are opposing it on the basis of politics rather than principle. I want to urge Members that we can look at this issue as a matter of principle. Our colleague, hon. Wanga, is not oblivious to the mood in the House. She is able to come up and address us very well even on a point of an amendment, if that be the case. But let us not kill an issue which is principled. To end, the other time we had the Miraa Select Committee and this could as well have been done by the Committee on Health or Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Committee, but we debated it here openly and we allowed Members from Gwassi and Meru districts where miraa is grown to articulate their issues very well. We allowed them to have their go and sort themselves out. So, why is it that when we people who go through these roads, for example, the Narok Road, Nakuru and Mombasa roads, which are killers, bring these issues we look at it politically? Let us see how to save our people rather than see politics in every single thing that comes before us. So, I want to support this Motion. I want to urge my colleagues on the opposite side that let us not thump our feet just because you think that CORD is trying to pull something under the feet. The CORD is not pulling anything."
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