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    "id": 569630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Yes, I am advised. Hon. Speaker, the point I was trying to bring to the attention of the House and to the nation at large is this: We have been living together in this country. The issues of how we are supposed to live are well addressed in the new Constitution. Utterances by politicians or even imagination that members of this country can be allowed outside the law to cut each other with pangas over political sentiments is something we need to run away from. I know and I have been informed by members of the public. I have received calls from Eldoret, Busia and Kisumu from people who are concerned about this panga issue. Less than ten years ago, there was the much talked about 41 against one. We cannot let this country go that direction because that one is part of us. When the sentiments come from one, whom the law was trying to protect, the anxiety is one that this House ought to disassociate itself from. The respective arms of law and organs charged with enforcing the law need to act. I said it here two days ago when we discussed the crackdown on alcohol. I cautioned our colleagues not to be lawless and try to let the arms of Government do their work. We have been treated to very interesting events for about a week now."
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