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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Francis Masara",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Suna West",
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    "content": "who have never got an opportunity to be elected but they are experienced, where will they get the opportunity to be elected as Members of EALA? Therefore, I want us to protect all because that is what the Constitution says. We must also give young people opportunity to get employed and have an opportunity to represent their interests. The interests of young people are understood better by young people. For example, I can go to disco the same way other young people can go to disco. You cannot get represented by an old man because maybe during their time, discos were restricted but it is now allowed. Hon. Speaker, I do not want to consume much of your time. I am new but I will be guided in terms of the time for campaign for the Members of the EALA. We do not know them. We are voting tomorrow. There should be a clear guideline on how people should campaign. I am requesting you to allow us the whole night, you pay for us a hotel, so that these people can come and sell to us their ideas so that we can understand them. We should not just vote like cows. We have 25 candidates but we are supposed to elect only nine. I have two votes which I cannot change. I have one for Dr. Oburu Odinga and another one for Kalonzo Junior to balance the old and the young from the NASA team. I have never met the rest of the candidates. How will I vote? Maybe, Hon. Junet, who is my neighbour back home, will give me a list of people to be voted for and then I will vote. However, next time, I will request that we get opportunity to understand and interrogate the candidates because we were given hard tasks back at home. I campaigned for six years. I started campaigning in 2011 and I was elected in 2017. Just imagine! There is someone who just came the other day for two days and is being elected. We then earn the same salary. When he goes to the EALA, nobody will bother him with issues of representation. For me, I have to go back every weekend for funeral and Harambee gatherings. Even when a young boy or girl dies, I have to be there. You are also required to resist when time arises, yet the salary is the same. Therefore, these people need to be given opportunity to campaign. We need to know what they are capable of doing. Thank you for allowing me to speak today, Hon. Speaker."
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