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    "id": 757511,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waititu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is good to be in this seat of the Leader of the Minority Party. The Chairman of the Orange Democratic Movement, Hon. Mbadi, is next to me. What my fellow Members of Parliament have just said is true. We said in the 11th Parliament and now in the 12th Parliament that in this Parliament, we do not have the Opposition or any other names that they call themselves out there. We have the Minority and the Majority Parties. We are one and the same. We should be very careful when we talk about our country. In Juja Constituency - which is cosmopolitan - there are so many children who are not going to school due to lack of bursaries because they are from very poor families in the coffee farms and other places. Laws are made in this Parliament. That is what we want to follow. When you hear people outside Parliament talking about how they want this country to run yet that is not in the Kenyan laws that we have, we find that we are not moving this country to where it should be. At the end of the 11th Parliament, we spoke about how we really need this country to be. My friend, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, has been running for the presidency since Independence. I do not say that it is wrong. He has his Members of Parliament who can amend or rectify the law through Parliament. There is nowhere else apart from this National Assembly where you can amend laws, not even in the Senate. You can only do it here in the National Assembly. When we go out there and show Kenyans that we are in two different countries, it does not bond well. I have listened to many Kenyans out there. We should be one team looking at what we should do for this country because of the children and future generations. The Chairman here is my very good friend and knows that I know how to speak Luo and Luhya fluently. It does not matter what tribe you are from. The only thing that we can do is to unite this country so that in future, they can remember us and say that Kenya has unity. But now, we are saying that after 60 days, there will be no elections. These are words from people who do not even follow the Kenyan Constitution. I am happy because the Chairman will say it is true and that it is in the Constitution. Those are the people who want to run for the presidency. We know who they are this time round. There are two candidates. Let us face the people and move on so that this country can stand where it should be. I am happy when I see Members seated here thinking about the future of this country. We are honourable members just because we are elected from each constituency. But after that, do we care about this country that God has given us? Are we there to make this country different from other African countries? Why are we fighting for things that cannot happen? I will also talk about what is happening and how people are talking about it. A young boy whom I knew sometimes back and I know he got some bursary funds is now abusing people. You are an honourable Member of Parliament and you want to abuse a mother of a country who fought for the independence of this country and whose husband was jailed because of this country and you want to---"
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