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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kogo",
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        "legal_name": "Wilson Kipngetich Kogo",
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    "content": "Protect me, Hon. Deputy Speaker. There is a lot of noise. Kenya is a great country. Kenya is one country that we need to guard for the sake of our people and future. I have listened to the Members contributing and on the part of the Minority Party, there is a lot of dishonesty. I have been waiting for just one word from every Member of the Opposition. I thought their last words would be that they would resign immediately after this session. You are condemning the IEBC yet you are a product of the same as a Member of this House. Therefore, we are very dishonest with ourselves and this country. Hon. Mbadi - in absentia - Hon. Wandayi, Hon. Wamalwa and Hon. Junet, with due respect, if you are really honest with this country, resign immediately and then we ask for by-elections in your constituencies. This Motion has come at the right time. From 8th August until the time the court gave the verdict and nullified the elections, this country has gone through so many challenges and people are crying in our constituencies. I was in my constituency over the weekend and businessmen are crying. Our economy is going down. Last week, I tried to ask for a loan in a bank and nobody is willing to give us loans just because of the uncertainty that this country has been put into by NASA. Time has come for us to shelf our self-interests. We are not ready to go to the situation we were in, in 2007/2008. We are not ready for that. When you look at the history of Hon. Raila, every other time he has contested in an election, the end result is violence. We are not ready this time round. He contested during the reign of Moi, Kibaki and now Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta. As the Member for Chesumei, I am not ready. I want to declare here that if it comes to the worst, then we are ready to defend this country. I am asking the institutions that are in charge to do so. The police should take charge. We love this country. We cannot allow few people to mess up with what we are doing here. The question I am asking is whether Raila is scared of the elections. If so, he should not mess up with this country with what he is doing with the Members of the Opposition."
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