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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Didmus Mutua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also support this Adjournment Motion. Let me begin by first appreciating and thanking Kenyans of all walks of life who wake up very early in the morning to engage in business that will enable them to put food on the table for their children. I also want to appreciate the very many Kenyans who travel from east, west and south of this republic into this city to do small businesses that will also enable them earn a living. I also want to bring to the attention of Kenyans that we are where we are as a country because of the Jua Kali sector. These are the men and women who sell sugarcane along the road and those who sell food in small kiosks along the road. It is very unfortunate that despite these efforts by Kenyans, we have individuals who have been sabotaging the economic gains of these people by sponsoring criminal gangs in the name of demonstrators. They are destroying Kenyans’ property and interfering with their businesses. I want to make it clear that as we support this Adjournment Motion, we are going back to the villages where we come from. We are going back to our constituencies to tell stories between those who want to promote peace and those who toy the country left, right and centre. The only way peace will prevail in this country is by not interfering with the will of the Kenyan people to elect their president. What I have witnessed in the last few weeks, pregnant women and school going children being molested by demonstrators, only explains that as a country, we have not matured our level of democracy to the standard of the US where people can demonstrate peacefully. As a country, and as Members of Parliament, we need to support Cabinet Secretary Matiang’i to ensure that central business districts (CBD) of major cities of this country are no go zones for those peaceful demonstrators who turn out to be goons and criminal gangs. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I support this Adjournment Motion, Kenyans are now aware. It is now clear which coalition is supporting the elections of the repeat presidential elections on 26th October 2017. That is the only way we will have peace in this country. The courts have spoken. There is no way that withdrawal of a particular candidate is again going to lead this country backwards, that we have again to go to an electioneering mood. We have been politicking for a very long time. Time has come that for us to put these elections behind and move forward. 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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