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    "id": 543644,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was throwing a challenge to this House. I want us to borrow from the US experience. Congress rallied around President Bush notwithstanding political affiliations. I want to challenge this House: Let us rally around the Commander-In-Chief. However, let me also challenge the Commander-In-Chief: Come to this House with some very bold measures which can enable us to hand you full authority to deploy the full arsenal of the Commander-In- Chief, including zone declaration of state of emergency. We can zone this country and identify places that must be placed under special attention and special action. As we do that, I hope that hon. Members of this House will not go out there, if your constituency is among the special zones, to start screaming: “My people are being finished.” This is not about your people. This is about Kenya and security. Allow me to conclude by declaring that next Saturday I will be burying a brilliant boy in Budalang’i called Peter Magio Mulindiro who lost his life in circumstances that are so painful. Because all of us share in that pain, let us put our political differences aside. If ever there was a moment for this House to rally around a common cause, that moment is now. Let us challenge the Commander-In-Chief to come here either directly or through proxy and request for full armour of legislative authority that can enable him to deploy the full force of the Office of the Commander-In-Chief of the Defence Forces of the Republic of Kenya. In future, a Motion such as this cannot be restricted to the kind of time we have given it. This is a Motion that we should debate continuously for three parliamentary sittings."
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