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    "id": 742495,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "If we are dealing with the issue of national cohesion and healing, the President must start preaching that in his own actions. When he comes to Nyanza, even when we criticise him, he is still the President. I need him to come to Mbita and compensate IDPs. Even as I will be telling him off, he must come and compensate the IDPs. We did not tell him to be President. Once you decide to be president, whether people like you or not, you must serve everybody equally. Even in our own areas, we have places where people do not like us but we go there and serve them because that is their constitutional right and our mandate. Because of that I am not very persuaded to support this budget. Finally, I want to speak to the issue of food security. When I walked in the Chair was speaking around the issue of Galana. As the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives we have looked at it. It was meant to ensure food security. But as we speak, from where I come ugali is life. I cannot afford ugali now; I am eating fish with mukimo or chapati. It is actually almost a curse for us to eat fish that way. We are being told there is unga for Kshs90. I do not care if it is Kshs500. I need to buy unga . It is just not there. If Millie Odhiambo, a Member of Parliament, cannot get unga where do Kenyans get it from? There is a place where I wash my car. They told me: “ Mheshimiwa, when you go to Parliament today, tell them we just need unga at any price”. Leave alone the Kshs90 one which is supposed to be subsidised. Before, people were crying about very expensive unga ; now it is not even there. Can we have that unga at all? Finally, on the issue of election security I would want to say that the Government must not just commit resources. They must commit resources knowing that we have women who are also vying. As I speak today, I buried my bodyguard. My home was burnt down. The other day, Hon. Duale was saying that I burnt my own home, which is a language very similar to that of one of my opponents associated with burning my house. I have been saying he is a Jubilee Party candidate. It proves me right because Hon. Duale used to have a lot of information about my house burning. So, we want the Government to show commitment that where there are women candidates, there must be heightened security. Not a situation where all my supporters were being attacked and it took the police more than an hour to arrive. It took somebody to die before the police could come. I had to run to a neighbouring constituency to get the police. So, it is not enough to put money here. It must be money with action. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks I will not support. Thank you."
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