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    "id": 45042,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Jamleck Kamau is a very good friend of mine and my neighbor. However, I find this Motion extremely dangerous. We have taken close to 50 years to liberate ourselves from the one-party KANU era where everything was controlled; from vets, opinions to movements. Just when we are beginning to realize the promise of the new Constitution, I see efforts to take us backwards. A careful look at this Motion talks about a framework that includes opinion polls control board. The word “control” reminds me of a very dangerous period of our history. That is a regulation. Opinions are held by people and whether we have opinion polls or not, every day in discussions and when people meet, they express their opinions. The moment you try to regulate and control those opinions, you are acting in the most undemocratic manner. You are sending this country backwards. I cannot comprehend what moved my friend to think that a Motion like this would see the light of day. It will be more shameful for this House, having worked so hard to get this country on a new constitutional dispensation, to engage itself in an exercise which takes away rights. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for those reasons, I oppose this Motion and urge my colleagues to reject it."
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