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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Motion by the very able Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. John Mbadi, and as amended by Hon. Millie Odhiambo. This issue is urgent. In fact, it was an urgent matter very many years ago. I reminisce the times when we were growing up where we were told of great leaders who would stand on podiums and platforms and swear that not even a single inch of this country would be annexed. It is in this spirit that I look at the matter of Migingo and see it not as an issue of Migingo only. It is actually the principle of it. When an inch of this land is annexed, we start wondering what will happen next. Someone might stand up one day and claim that since the waters of Lake Victoria flow all the way to Egypt, Lake Victoria is part of Egypt. It is the principle of it. It is because of that that I think it is about time that this House’s Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations collaborates with the Cabinet Secretary for Defence and come up with a decree from the Head of State. We would like to hear a decree pronouncing itself on a number of issues. Issue number one, we would like to know what the exact territorial boarders are, concerning Migingo. The second issue we would like to hear is the urgent action that would be taken because the harassment is going on even as we speak. We would also want to hear what it is that the President takes as a position concerning not only the issue of Migingo, but other territorial issues facing this country up to and including the issues of our territories on the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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