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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to agree with the Mover and the Seconder that we should have taken a bipartisan approach. It is very sad that on an issue of security, we would like to come here and go the way we are going. But, unfortunately, the damage is already done. This is one thing that we should have sat, as a House, in a Kamukunji and talked soberly about it. Security affects all of us. When you have the Westgate attack and all those issues that the Members are citing, you would be a lunatic to be supporting a system that does not want to end insecurity in this country. Both the Opposition and the Government side are very committed to ensuring that there is security in this country. Having said that, you would also be very foolish if you hear there is a snake in your house and you light fire in the house with your children and all your relatives in the house. With this Bill, we are setting our house on fire. There may be good things in this Bill, as I have told hon. A.B. Duale, but there are some pretty dangerous things in it. I am one of the people in this country who have fought. I have been beaten by the police. I have fought of a gun, off the hands of the police, so that this country can be free. When I see such things, in my view, this is the Chiefs’ Authority Act reloaded, re-energized and revitalised. We are back to the Chiefs’ Authority Act. In the spirit of bipartisanship, I want the Members to look with me at Clauses 4 and 5, which hon. Duale quoted. I will not read it because we do not have time, but I want the Members in their own time to look at that. When I go to Mbita, the natural reaction, unless you are unpopular, is that the young people and the women will run to you. You will not greet them one by one and quietly tell them go away. You will greet them and they will ask you to address them and tell them what is going on in Nairobi. Even if you do not tell them what is going on in Nairobi, you will tell them: “my dear people”, that is already a meeting. If you do that after this law passes, you will be jailed for 20 years. Do not be misled. This is affecting The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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