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    "id": 937259,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": "So, people look at it as a public relations exercise. Until certain politicians are held to account, this hate speech will continue even in 2022. I have listened to Hon. Mbadi and with a lot of respect, I want to say the following. The worst thing we can do as politicians and Members of Parliament is to use political violence against each other. This is because we will then have absolutely no boundaries going forward. We are showing the rest of the country that we do not have political tolerance in a way that we can campaign in one area, as Members of Parliament, and still respect each other and not mete any political violence on each other. It was sad when I watched that video and saw what happened to Hon. Barasa. I never campaigned in Kibra, but I had been very happy to watch rallies held in Kibra and we never saw any incidents until the last day. I had thought we had come a long way. I thought we have come of age and matured. That the Deputy President William Ruto can go to Kibra, hold a rally and go home well, I thought that was real political maturity until the last day when I saw Members of Parliament going through certain violence. Even as much as we want to say “we did not do it, we are a very good political party, we want facts”, I think it is important for us to come straight and say that if we are saying “no more political violence”, which is one of the issues the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) is dealing with, we must see it in terms of action. We cannot talk about political violence and the BBI and we are at the same time seeing people go through political violence. We have a handshake that was supposed to bring peace and political harmony and we are fighting each other. Honestly, then we are cheating Kenyans. I know there is nobody with monopoly of violence. If you come to Embu, there will be politicians in Embu who know who the goons are. They will use it against you yet you did not think it would come to you one day. Therefore, it will be a vicious cycle of violence. I hope we can see real change going forward. Let us not imagine what we saw happening in Kibra cannot follow us into 2022. I truly support the words of President Uhuru Kenyatta, the words of the Deputy President William Ruto and the words of the Hon. Raila Odinga that never again should Kenyans die. Never again should blood be spilled because of politics. If we cannot control ourselves, the leadership cannot do anything. We must walk the talk. I am also very happy that I have seen Hon. Dorcas Kedogo here. It helps when we see real politicians with experience getting into these commissions. They add value to the commissions. We have Hon. Philip Okundi, a former Member of Parliament and Hon. Abdulaziz Ali Farah. I pray that because they have experience and they know what it is that happens especially on the political front, they will work towards ensuring that there is peace in the country. More importantly, they will create harmony and national cohesion across the country. I want to ask the Chairman, Dr. Samuel Kobia, a man we all know for performing well in his former dockets, to be firm. He is a man of action. A real worker and a civil servant. I ask that he does not allow himself to get intimidated when he goes out there to do his work. We will support him especially because we ask this Commission to support and protect women when it comes to politics. Women should not be intimidated and taken through political violence. We 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."
}