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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Josphat Wachira",
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    "content": "We are continuously getting worried by the content of the debate of the House, especially from our brothers. We are getting confused as new Members when we see our brothers rising up just to be seen on the screen, contribute and immediately leave this House. This is confusing to some of us new Members. I wonder whether all of us understand and know why we are in the House. I have travelled in this country, I have had a chance of working in almost all the 47 counties in this country, and I know how needy some of the constituencies represented here are. When I see Members concentrating on issues that do not relate to their constituents; when I see Members who are not worried about the hunger, lack of water and the poverty levels out there and they are concentrating on what I would call a contest on the screen—to come here to please their masters, to show how they are supporting them, to show them how they are not supporting the government of the day—I get very worried. As I do so, let me say I came from a serious environment; an environment where probably I could be earning more than what I earn here. But because of the needy people of Mwea, I took up this challenge. I am here to present issues of roads, lack of water, lack of good schools; I am here to look at our many youth, more than 110,000 in Mwea who are not employed today. When I come here and see people concentrating on swearing in and other things, I get worried and confused. I think in the future we need to look at how this business would return to the business which some of us used to observe. We came here knowing that we shall find models. These models are now no longer models; they are people who pop in, talk, are seen on TV, declare themselves this and that and then they leave. This is very worrying. I want to commend the leadership of the House for having come up with this calendar, a calendar that allows me to balance out between the duties that have been given to me by the people of Mwea, my family affairs as well as coming to this House to contribute to very important national issues. As we speak, a majority of Kenyans are undergoing very serious drought problems. They are going through many problems: lack of water and other things. And this is the House expected to come up with rules and laws that will enable these people to live a better life. I want to extend some advice to my brothers who keep popping in and out that Kenyans look upon this House to debate and come up with serious policies that would help them to get a better life out there. We should not in any way bring issues that would divide us in this House. We were so peaceful in the morning, before one Member decided to rise and give his own personal opinion, which I believe the majority of the Opposition does not stand for, and then 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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