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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "I support this Motion for Adjournment. This is the time when we should go home and reflect on what we have done. I also want us to reflect on another issue. When we congratulate ourselves for passing many Bills, are we saying that when we pass many Bills we are efficient? I tend to think it should be the other way round. When we pass many Bills it means our Bills are very fluid, not based on research, can easily be bent here and there and that is why we are passing so many of them. We should take heed of other countries. In a country like China, members of parliament only sit for 15 days to deliberate on laws that were not serving them properly throughout the year. We should also take heed. We do not change our Constitution time and again meaning that we are very stable in terms of constitutional law. However, when it comes to the Acts that we pass in this country, they are very fluid and not efficient as such. I am also a very worried man today because we vote along tribal lines in this House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we are supporting members who are from our tribes, then we are not making good laws in this country. It is a bad trend and we are telling Kenyans to divide themselves along tribal lines. We should be careful when voting because we have been given a chance by all Kenyans to serve them regardless of our tribes. I come from a constituency which is cosmopolitan and sometimes you fail to know which side to take when people start voting along tribal lines and so, I think we should change that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is the issue of fighting alcoholism. Since we are moving from a low to middle income country, we cannot move if our young generation is indulging in this alcoholism and we have to liberate them the way we started this week. The content of this illicit brew is not the correct ingredient that should be given to our people. I happened to have a look at what our young men are taking in the constituency and this alcohol is a mixture of cocaine, formalin preservative and other concoctions that make them get addicted when they take a glass. That is why it is difficult to remove them from this mess. We should liberate them from this."
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