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    "id": 880169,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Malindi, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Aisha Jumwa",
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        "legal_name": "Aisha Jumwa Katana",
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    "content": "nation at large. He overcame political party barriers in his quest to ensure this nation remains one and indivisible. I pay tribute to him. Chapter 4 of the Constitution provides for rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech and freedom of association. Freedom means one can express himself/ herself without victimisation, freedom to have a divergent opinion within a party and have that opinion respected without being condemned. Let it be on record that Hon. Aisha Jumwa supported the handshake spearheaded by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya, Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, and Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga. It is an important rallying call for all Kenyans to embrace each other. It is an opportunity for us to come together, work together, walk together and develop this country together. Further, the building bridges initiative, which calls for dialogue among Kenyans has opened a new chapter in our political history. When the history books shall be written, I believe that future generations will read that there lived a heroine who stood for a genuine handshake. They will read that Aisha Jumwa stood for true building bridges and practised the true spirit of togetherness. Above all, they will read that Aisha Jumwa stood against hypocrisy, ethnicity, despicable gender dehumanisation and party extremism. I wish to categorically state that I have been unjustly condemned for building bridges with my fellow Kenyans and urge the great people of Malindi and the Coast Region to remain calm. I echo the civil rights movement of the United States of America in the 1960s - I will overcome. Thank you, honourable colleagues and Members for standing with me."
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