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    "id": 785953,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute on this important Motion. Upfront, I support this Motion. We have seen demonstrations being organised overnight in this country. People’s property is destroyed. In fact, even lives are destroyed. If we have designated areas for demonstrations, the Government can provide adequate security to those areas. It is so that whenever people are demonstrating or protesting, they will be contained. They will just do their protestation and demonstration without affecting other citizens who want to carry on with their businesses. I remember there was a demonstration here in Nairobi a few months ago. I was taking somebody to the Aga Khan Hospital. I came across demonstrators on Valley Road. In a sense, the demonstration made it impossible for me to drive on or back. That patient was really in pain. I really suffered. I had to come out and tell them to kill me if they wanted to so long as they allowed that person to be taken to hospital. That is how I came to take that person to hospital. It was after about three hours of being marooned by those demonstrators yet what they were demonstrating on had nothing to do with me or that patient. This is a very important Motion. I wish it was brought many years back so that this country is peaceful. You have also seen that we use the same road to our upcountry homes. A vehicle, once in a while, hits and kills some three or four goats belonging to the Maasai. Then the Maasai community, the herders, come to the road and block it. You cannot travel through Suswa during such times. They also burn the road. The cost of repairing that road is much higher than the cost of the dead four or five goats. If we had designated areas, those Maasai friends of mine would not destroy the road; they would go there, demonstrate and pass a message to the authorities that they have been wronged. The country will continue being peaceful. People will be doing their business in a normal way. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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