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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. I also wish to congratulate the President for his timely and wise Speech which he gave yesterday. I would also like to congratulate and thank the Speaker for coming out very clear on the various things that we are witnessing in this country and which only us national leaders can bring solutions to. Yesterday, the President and the Speaker said that there is need for this House to carry out reforms. The President, in fact, said that various Bills should be passed in three months. I support that, but I wish to say that this Parliament has done much more than any other Parliament and we deserve to be congratulated by this nation. We do not deserve the labeling that sometimes is put on us. This is because we have worked very hard and we will continue to work very hard. Reforms are here with us. There is the issue of the ICC which is facing us. For purposes of being on record, I said that I support the local tribunal. I supported that for only one reason, even when the matter came before the House; I believe Kenya is an independent country. It is good for us to have confidence in our own people and our country. Unfortunately, we are where we are because we never sat down as national leaders to look at what was facing us and ask ourselves about the consequences of this matter - we were just hearing of an envelope. Had we done that, we would be in a better situation. Some of the things we are rushing to do now, we would have done them earlier. It is now upon this Parliament to quickly come up with judicial and police reforms so that we can set up a local tribunal and tell the whole world that we are capable of handling our own affairs. That is our main duty and we should execute it quickly so that the people who shed blood can be proud of what we are doing. Let us not forget that it is the leaders who are responsible for putting this country where it is. It is shameful to see a great grandmother in a tattered tent three years after what we witnessed in 2008. It is upon this Parliament whether it takes Kshs10 billion or Kshs20 billion, to ensure that we put this matter behind us. Some of us are traditional. We believe in curses. Let the insults that are being hurled at the IDPs stop. An 80-year old lady has no happiness living in a tattered tent for all this time. So, let nobody say casually that these are bogus IDPs. Truly, I do not understand how an 80-year old grandmother can live in a tent for this long. What money is she looking for? I asked the media this question, the other day. What can please an 80-year grandmother living in a tattered tent and sleeping hungry? The IDPs are living in the worst climate of this country. They live in Timorous and Naivasha. These are cold places. I appeal to the national leaders to face the reality and solve some of these national problems, without any partisan politics."
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