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    "speaker_name": "Jared Okelo Odoyo",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Nyando",
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    "content": "I am aware that the past regimes have consistently extended mercy and grace to particular farmers within this country in regard to coffee and tea. Many loans have been vacated before, but where I come from, rice and sugarcane are the cash crops we rely on and not even a single day have we received such grace. I hope as we move forward as a country particularly with the next NASA Government coming into office in the next elections that my region will be adequately considered. We have clawed back on the several gains we had made as a country. We have done so because of parochial and partisan interests. As we move, let the 12th Parliament seize the moment and do all those things that are in sync with the wishes and aspirations of the Kenyan people. This is because they have given us the onerous responsibility to champion their interests here. As we speak, there is palpable tension out there, courtesy of many changes we would want to bring at this late hour with regard to the re-election. Those issues will continue bringing a lot of tension in this country. In the 10th Parliament, such things existed, but it called for the wisdom and intervention of the then Speaker, Hon. Marende. He brought sanity into our politics. I hope and believe that, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you will also seize the moment and discard everything that is not in tandem with the wishes of the Kenyan people because together we perish and together we can rise. So, it is something that is very key to me. It behoves all of us in this House to bring sanity and order to this country. As people used to say, in the American period during the segregation time, we would rather die standing than live on our knees. We would not wish to push Kenyans to the wall; they will, in one unity, pronounce that very statement. I support the Motion for Adjournment so that we go out there to talk to our people as they exercise their cardinal responsibilities as espoused in the Constitution. I heard about castigations when people talk about Article 37 of the Constitution, protecting the right to picket, demonstrate and even to file petitions."
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