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"speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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"content": "The Member for Kisumu Central has never been in the House, I just saw him entering now. Tell him we are not at the Siaya County Assembly. He will wait and listen until he gets his time. The final thing that I want to speak about, which is very important, is unity. We must agree today here that we must unite the nation coming from a very divisive election of 2017; a period where my former leader was sworn in at Uhuru Park and my good friend, Miguna Miguna, is out of the country for no good reason. He is a Kenyan. Why is he out of the country? He should come back. Based on what was happening, we must reach out to every Kenyan in every village, tribe, political party leader and all of us to preach unity. It is in the interest of our citizens. The President is very sincere. He made it clear when we had the annual breakfast meeting where he called Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka, Hon. William Ruto, Hon. Raila Odinga and they held hands. The President, both in spirit and the letter, is committed to the unity of our nation. There are some of us from both sides of the divide who believe that the handshake; the unity, must be selective. They believe that this unity must be like a menu where you go to a hotel and you can select Ngwashe, Anjera, Nyirinyiri and Aleso. For those who do not know Aleso, you can consult me later. This is a staple food for my community. I cannot say I am going to have unity with Hon. Makali Mulu, but when it comes to Hon. Maanzo, we are enemies. That is what is happening in Kenya. The President is the only person who is sincere. President Uhuru Kenyatta is sincere. He wants to leave a legacy of a united country, but the rest of us, starting with the former Prime Minister, including Hon. William Ruto, Kalonzo Musyoka, Musalia Mudavadi, Members of the National Assembly and Senators are not sincere. Every weekend, when we go to our constituencies, we talk a different language and say that this unity is for this or that corner and that this unity wants to fix this group. Let us agree that if you want to have unity with President Uhuru Kenyatta, there is no way you will avoid Hon. William Ruto. It is called the presidency. There is no way you will avoid Hon. Duale. The moment I see that by your language and your body language you only want to have a unity deal with the President and not Hon. Duale, we will not agree. So, all of us must agree. For the same reason, you cannot have unity and the handshake with the former Prime Minister and say that you will not have unity with some section of his party. We want the unity to be with the President, the former Prime Minister, all political party leaders and all of us as Members of Parliament. This unity goes to our constituencies and counties. At times, we have constituency, county and ethnic conflicts. Members of Parliament, I really want to urge you today that the most important thing that President Uhuru Kenyatta has done for our country is to 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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