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    "id": 644744,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was very keen on this inauguration because Sen. Wetangula is my friend. So, I was very keen to see how it was going to proceed. Of course, we were worried because we were hearing that there might be a disruption of the inauguration. However, I am happy about one thing that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has said in his statement; this seems to be an in-house thing, where for a change, there is no blame on Jubilee at all. It is a totally an in-house thing. The only worry, which I believe is the worry of all of my colleagues here, is that there seems to be a rising trend of goonism in this country, something that we have not seen in the past. We are finding political meetings disrupted at whatever level, whether localized or not, by people we have not seen before. We have seen that governors in virtually all the counties now have goons which are very close to militia. Unless this is nipped in the bud now and we and the national security deal with it now, we are looking at a situation where the election campaigns next year could be bloody without tribal phobia at localized levels. This is because goonism is taking a very centre stage in the politics of this country. That is something that we must stop now. It has come, it is obvious and we are seeing it. We regret what happened in Kakamega County. In my opinion, this should not happen anywhere because everybody has a right to express their will of how they want to represent the people of Kenya. In the past, we have seen other people having their inaugurations which have never been disrupted even by the people that they were contending against. This is something that must be dealt with firmly before it becomes a national sport where people think that they can continue ---"
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