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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "preach and give us the card of unity. That unity is at risk because of politics and mistrust. People want to deal with history and the future. Let us first unite our country. Once we do that, come 2022, Inshallah, when we reach there because we do not even know whether we will reach there, the people of Kenya will make a decision. So, unity of our country is important. I have opportunity to ask our Members, please, let us not use the Address of the President that will be discussed for the next four days to polarise the nation. Let us not polarise the nation. Let us not sow the seed of discord. Let us not be the leaders who will plant enmity between communities, political leaders and regions. I really want us to use this opportunity through the President’s Address to urge all of us to go back and agree on how to support the unity deal between our two leaders. We are the troops. We are the people who will enable them to cement that deal. Let us be a deal. Let us have unity which is honest. Let us have unity which everybody knows about so that we can make unity with all the leaders. Let us reach out to Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka and Hon. Musalia Mudavadi. Let us reach out to Moses Wetangula. He was removed as the Leader of the Minority Party in the Senate. We must reach out to him and tell him: “Yes, that happened, but we are now on another course of uniting the country.” We cannot unite half the country and leave the other half. We cannot unite the country in the terms we want. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think the President’s two main issues were on the war against corruption on which he said everyone, including Parliament, must take a role. It must be war against corruption devoid of mischief, witch-hunting and jungle vigilante justice. Again, we should give an opportunity to the institutions that are answerable to Parliament. If they have issues, we should call them before the committees and ask questions to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). The DPP briefs committees and tables a report every three months. The EACC tables a report every three months. The Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI), through the National Police Service (NPS), tables a report every month. The Controller of Budget tables a report on how she is giving money to counties. The Auditor-General has as late as yesterday given us a most controversial Eurobond Report on how the money was raised and used. So, you can call these institutions any time of the day and ask them questions. Let us not deal with them when we are out in the field. With those many remarks, I beg to move. I ask Hon. Pukose to second."
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