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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aluoch",
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    "content": "I am serious about this and I have been thinking to myself that probably we need to look at the qualifications for being a Member of this House. One of them ought to be skills in conflict resolution, because then, the debate that we have been having in the last two weeks arising from the judgement of the Supreme Court, should not take the line it is taking. Why is it that we must always thump-chest? Why is it that we must always have brinkmanship? Can we not, for a moment, consider that the period we are going to have, if we approve this timetable for recess, is a period when we can speak to each other and not at each other. We need to forget about being Members of NASA or Jubilee and think about Kenya. I see in this House men and women who have abdicated their responsibilities and who, instead of providing leadership, are being led by those they are supposed to lead. We should not be doing that. This is the time for us to show that we can lead this country. We must see that we are going to have election and after that, we must have our country back. Let us not go through the election process and at the end of it, we have no country to talk about. How many of us think about this at night or when we wake up in the morning? What role are you playing as a leader to ensure that the precipice we are heading towards is removed? Personally, it worries me when I see sycophancy cleaning us away from our leadership roles. I see honorable men and women of this House trying hard to show that their loyalty to the President or Raila overrides everything else. Is that what we want? We must be serious now. If we do not take our roles seriously during this recess, we shall take responsibility for whatever happens on or after 26th October 2017. I saw it happen in 2008 when I was a Member of this House. I saw it happen again in the last term. I am seeing it happening again this term where we sit back and allow those outside this House to lead us. Let us have the courage and stamina to take up this responsibility during the recess and lead this country. To do it, we need to speak to each other. Can the leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party not sit down and look at men and women of this House who have skills in conflict resolution to sit down together and bring sanity to our country? There are serious negotiators in this House, but I have also heard some very bad negotiators in this House The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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