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    "id": 548835,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kabando wa Kabando",
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        "legal_name": "Kabando wa Kabando",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I would like to laud and thank the Speakers panel. By and large, all of you, sitting in the Chair, have moderated this Session very well. It is important that we acknowledge and recognise that contribution. Secondly, going by the mood of the House in the past few weeks and today, it is clear that all of us in this House should shed off the grandstanding attitude that has characterised the Eleventh Parliament. Whether one is in Jubilee or in CORD, it is important that we consult. It is also important to consult when a country is at war, like we are now under serious external threat. The top leadership of CORD and Jubilee should be consulting. On 7th August 1997, Daniel arap Moi, Michael Kijana Wamalwa, Charity Kaluki Ngilu, Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga rode in the same van from State House to the scene of the bomb blast, and that gave the country an indication of solidarity. When the Westgate Shopping Mall was attacked, Raila Odinga and Musalia Mudavadi accompanied President Uhuru Kenyatta and visited all the victims in all the hospitals. I was lucky to be in two of those hospitals at that time. We gave this country a sense of solidarity. It is important, as we see, for Uhuru to reach out to the Odinga family, for Musalia Mudavadi to talk good of Jubilee, for Moses Wetangula to say how we can work well with people on the other side of the political divide, and for hon. Kalonzo Musyoka to be praised by hon. Members in this House. We understand that those senior citizens consult at family level and that, politically, they are connected. You just need to look at what is happening and you will see. You need to listen and you will hear. Let the leadership of CORD and Jubilee speak to each other and consult. Whether you call it dialogue, debate, plotting or conspiracy, let us be witnessing solidarity at the national level. Terrorism knows no boundaries. 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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