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    "content": "I am happy to see these two gentlemen here. That means that if I am in trouble, they are in trouble too. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we are talking about Kenya, I would like to refer to Sen. Mwaura’s statement that politics is about perception. So, my perception of Kenya is not the same as the one you have. In my view, Kenya is like the rainbow. All of us see a different rainbow depending on where we are or the angle at which we look at it. So, in my view, there are 47 “Kenyas” and I come from the 23rd Kenya. My perception of that Kenya is totally different from that perception all of you have from whatever Kenya you come from. We are discussing yesterday’s speech made by the President which we boycotted. You have said that that was a great speech from a great president and so on and so forth. However, my view about the speech which I read through is not exactly what you are saying. The President chose some words that are good and somehow resonate with what I would support. For example, looking at Point No.2 here, he said that, “I thank Kenyans for expressing in their mature and patient manner their sovereign will during the elections.” Mark the word “sovereign.” He continued to say that “millions of voters stood in long queues in the sun and rain, hungry and thirsty in the quest to express their democratic choice.” I like some of those words. The people of Turkana who are in the 23rd Kenya did exactly that. They voted and wanted to demonstrate their choice of a president. However, unfortunately, that was not the case. What you call “the sovereignty of the people” was not observed in the sense that people were forced to elect or select somebody they did not want. We spend a lot of time convincing our people that we want a change of government. We have not been happy with the Government that is in place today because that Government has not been delivering what they promised to deliver to us as we expected. So, we wanted a change of government and we were expecting that somebody new, in this case, Raila Amolo Odinga, will come with a better government that will give us better services. Even though our people stood in the sun, rain or wind to cast their votes, they still wanted to express their God-given right to choose or elect a president they wanted. Unfortunately, what we call politics in Kenya is not really what you would describe as democratic choice because that is not the case. I am just surprised that all of you learned Hon. Members call this a democratic choice and even the President called it so. I have"
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