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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Chairman is trying to eat into my minutes. I know he put it there and I heard him saying it, but we have half cast boys who are 20 to 30 years. Has he factored them in his Report? How will he address their plight? Will their fathers come for them? That is the question we are asking. We are not talking of the future. Can we go back to the past in terms of what had happened before? Some women have been raped by these soldiers. Have we factored their plight in the Report? Have we factored how they are going to be compensated? The banning of miraa is the bone of contention. I was in the team that went to London. When we went there, we found that the banning of miraa was more political than there was any legal basis of them saying that they do not want miraa there. It is not because it was a drug or anything. It was just political. It is very unfortunate that the person who was at the helm of banning miraa when she was the Home Secretary is May Theresa. The same Theresa is now the boss in the UK. Things are worse. If they want to trade with us and have a balance of trade, why did they close the miraa market there? What harm had it done to them? Furthermore, they do not chew miraa, but it is the Somalis there who chew miraa. The UK Government went on and banned miraa. Today, we have destitute families in Meru. In Igembe Central Constituency, we are giving handouts to people who used to drive cars and who own stone houses. We are giving relief food to people who had big miraa farms because the miraa is drying due to lack of market for it. We pleaded with them to give us a grace period of five or 10 years so that we could see how our people could readjust, but this did not happen. They did it overnight after we left UK. Why are we rushing to ratify this agreement for them to get their army trained here, safeguard their interests and get employment for their youths when our farmers are suffering and cannot take their children to school? They have no means of income. These people go to their Member of Parliament, like me, to give them money to pay school fees. If we were selling miraa, this problem could have been solved."
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