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    "id": 394543,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "committee. I can see the Chairperson of the Transport, Public Works and Housing Committee nodding his head to that proposition. I believe that he agrees with me. Let me conclude by urging the Leader of Majority Party, whom I was listening to while driving to Parliament Buildings, having come in a bit late--- He seemed to be saying that a Motion that is either sponsored or supported by one side of the House cannot be either seconded or supported by hon. Members from the opposite side of the House. With due respect to him, I beg to disagree. We are the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya. We may have used different routes to enter this House, but when we sit here, we are seized of matters that are of importance to the people of this country. We must repeatedly rise above political differences to address matters that are of concern to Kenyans. Road accidents are not killing CORD or the Jubilee coalitions. Road accidents are killing Kenyans. So, when we debate such matters, we must look at them from that perspective. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to conclude, now that the Leader of Majority Party has come into the House, by sharing with him some words of Edmund Burke, a British statesman who lived between 1729 and 1797. Edmund says the following:- “Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices, ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”"
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