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    "content": "It had to be sorted out by the East African Court of Justice. So, if anybody thinks that you are going to force this because you want Mr. X to make the list, please, be informed; we will decide that. With all due respect, we would be doing it in futility. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, communication through the social media is becoming rapidly advanced. I remember doing a tweet to Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga and to the former Vice-President, Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, and the tweet really trended. I just told them, “My seniors and my bosses, are you saying that for all that we have been fighting for, you want to ask us to elect a son and a brother?” I posed that question. The tweet circulated and amongst the people, things were added. I want to congratulate Hon. Dr. Oburu for pulling out of the race. I know young Kennedy Musyoka is a pleasant professional and when I look at him, left on his own, that boy is going to fly. I want to encourage him to open himself to competition amongst his age mates. If, for example, I want all my sons – I have got two big ones and one of them is a lawyer – If I want them to get anything, I will allow them to compete just like they competed in primary and high schools and at the university. It is healthy. It is called equal opportunity and we should not look down on that principle. In fact, many of us here have gone through circumcision. During circumcision, your parents release you to face the circumciser. After circumcision, you live in seclusion with your agemates and they do not know whether you will heal. That is how we grew up as African children. Personally, I am going to vote for Kennedy Musyoka but with questions marks because they should have allowed the boy to compete. The only way is for the list of the CORD Coalition to be expanded so that each position can attract at least two people and we have minimum eight and maximum 12. If we do that, we will look very good, mature and we will look like a Parliament, but anything else reduces us to a rubberstamp. Sometimes when we say these things, people might be quick to say, “Who are you speaking on behalf of?” On this one, I know there are millions of youths who are salivating to either be the Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) or Members of Parliament (MPs) or Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA). Therefore, as a self-proclaimed mtetezi wa wanyonge, I would want to say that I am speaking for all those wanyonge who are being denied an opportunity---"
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