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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to apologise on behalf of the political class. I have made it a personal commitment everywhere I go. You sit with me in the Committee on the resettlement of the Internal Displaced Persons (IDPs). You are also a Member of the Amani Forum. A few of us who are Members of this Parliament do not want this country to go through what it went. We have been apologizing to our communities, on behalf of the political class, that we brought them problems and we have not even bothered for a single moment, to go back to these communities and just say pole because they were killed, injured and maimed, just because of you and me to be in this Parliament and the “Big five” to be in the offices that they occupy. That point must be made clear. I am clear in my mind that I do not want an election that will bring me to this House or take me to any other office on the basis of being rigged or because I have shed the blood of a Kenyan. We must make a covenant with ourselves; that these offices are not worth the life of a Kenyan. Sometimes, we have to say: “If it means that Kenyans lose their lives for me to be elected to an office, I would rather not be elected to that office.” This is what I really want to say and this is what the good Lord said in Jeremiah Chapter 31. He said that the days of you reading from the law books would be gone. The better days will be those days – and I am paraphrasing for the sake of Mr. Kabando wa Kabando – when the law will be written in the hearts of men and women; I may add being gender sensitive and cognizance of Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. That is the real law and commitment. That is real challenge of the Commission. Until those of us in the political class come and say that there are some basic ethos and principles in which we must operate, we will create Commissions and disband them every day as an excuse of our problems. We will sacrifice them like in the Old Testament for those gods and even this time, there will be gods without blemish."
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