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    "id": 788259,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung'wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Mover’s desire to withdraw the Motion. The Mover of that Motion has said that he intends to come up with a Bill which will do what he intended to do with the Motion. I want to encourage him to come up with a Bill because it is very important for this country to have designated areas where people can picket and demonstrate. I do not find anything unconstitutional in the Motion. Like all developed democracies, we should designate places where people can picket and demonstrate. I, therefore, want to support and encourage the Member for Ruiru to hurry up and bring a Bill, which we will consider and designate such areas, so that we can have order in this country. We are in a country where everybody wakes up every morning and decides that he will picket outside your gate even when the issues he is picketing about have got absolutely nothing to do with you. The same thing happens when doctors and university lecturers are on strike. As much as everybody has every right to meet with his representative at Parliament, he should not interrupt our business and the business of other people within town. It will only be right to designate a place for picketing. It can be around Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), where Members of Parliament and other Government officials can meet demonstrators and picketers. Demonstrators and picketers should not interfere with other people’s freedoms in the name of picketing."
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