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    "id": 548842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Last time we went on recess for only 10 days, including the holiday. Therefore, it was actually a seven-day recess. We need this time to go and talk to our constituents. Insecurity is a major problem we are facing in this country and we need to go out there, as the leadership of this country and opinion leaders, and sit down with our constituents and discuss this issue. We should ensure that we consult and discuss issues with the security committees at the constituency level. I have been concerned about certain things that have happened. All my colleagues have been doing a lot of work since the beginning of the year but there is something that is still bothering me; the issue of sitting Members of Parliament demonising former Members of Parliament. We cannot be our own poison. We cannot stand out there and say that former Members of Parliament do not have a right to get states jobs. Tomorrow, it will be you or me. The Eleventh Parliament has so many young Members of Parliament. If we continue to demonise ourselves, the rest of Kenyans will not have faith in us. The President was trying to tap the experience of some very good people who served in government and performed very well previously. Some of them are former Members of Parliament. Even if the President had tapped and got people who were related to Members of Parliament, certainly, those are Kenyans with constitutional rights. Most of them are well schooled, people who deserved the appointments. I want to ask all my colleagues to speak in one voice. Let us not oppose for the sake of opposing just because we think that by doing so, we accumulate bonga points. The people who give us the bonga points are the same ones who turn against us. Before you realise what is happening, at the end of your five-year term, you become a former Member of Parliament."
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