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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will move very fast. I will not take more than five minutes because we have very many issues to raise. First of all, let me thank the CIC for moving with time and keeping us updated. Secondly, let me thank the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs for standing with Kenyans in most of these issues. I really want to thank him even though I dispute the fact that he named his cat Ocampo. However, that is his right. Today is a milestone. It is a sad day for our nation. We should go the direction of wishing the Ocampo Six well. But most of all, think about the victims. The people who fell victims, the people who were left out there, our mothers, daughters and sons who are sleeping out there in the cold and rain and seem to be forgotten. We, as leaders, must think about them amidst all this. It is very important to say, at this point, that the reason why we wanted a new Constitution was because we wanted change. We must accept that the ground has shifted as hon. Ababu Namwamba has said. Members of Parliament, leaders, politicians and all Kenyans must know that this is a new dawn. If we were very nice and good, there would not have been need for a new constitutional dispensation. This was made to change us and we must change. I feel sad when I see a Member of Parliament breaking the law in broad daylight. When a Member of Parliament goes to a public rally and says that if so and so is not taken to The Hague, the next General Election will not take place--- Such Member of Parliament is trying to make sure that he stops the Constitution from taking its course. That is criminal and not just arrogance. That particular Member should have been arrested on the spot because by that, he was whipping ethnic feelings. He was telling a particular group of people not to accept the Constitution. As we speak, we have received calls from across the country that there are ethnic tensions."
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