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    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I do support but with proposed amendments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not speak to those proposed amendments today, but I want to just speak to a few issues. One; that, I wish the Minister had actually brought this law together with the electoral laws because it is creating a lot of confusion because a lot of people think that this law is very lean when it actually just sets up the Commission. But there is an electoral law that will be governing how we deal with elections. I think that is what we are more concerned about, even much more than this Commission that will be playing by the rules that will be set by that law. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we, as a country, very quickly forget. I have heard you apologizing. You understand when you apologize, because I have apologized myself. I was just from Rongai, Sotik, Kipkelion, Narok and what I can tell you, is that we, as Members of Parliament, must be very serious. It is not enough that when I say a point here which makes sense that we cheer, but it does not go to our hearts. On the ground, Kenyans hate each other. Let us just be blunt. Let us be plain. Kenyans hate each other by ethnicity. The things that I have seen - the messages that were being given are very clear. In one area we went, an old man who insisted that we must give him a chance to talk said that one day, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta came to their neighbourhood and pleaded with them and asked them: “If you have children who are orphaned and children who have a mother, who would you take care of?” They said: “We will take care of the ones without the mother.” Then they were told the Mau Mau children are orphaned; take care of them. The Mzee said: “How long will we take care of these children? Do these children not grow?” From what we are seeing on the ground, this country needs to heal. We are joking as parliamentarians. We need to take this issue seriously. We have a crisis waiting to happen. We were in Narok. There is a serious crisis waiting to happen in Narok."
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