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    "id": 807458,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Yatta, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Kilonzo",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Thank you for the protection. I watched the Leader of the Government business today and I saw a frustrated man. That is Hon. Duale. I remember in the funeral of the late mother of our Speaker, Hon. Duale made the following plea to the Head of State: “Your Excellency the President, allow the House to do its business.” One of the challenges we have is that every time this House wants to assert itself and do its business, there is a lot of interference, specifically from the highest offices. They are two. Those are the frustrations over which the Leader of the Majority Party was pleading to the President to allow us do our business as a House. When Hon. Duale confesses, and under the new Constitution, it is a confession by the Government. The Government knows all the evils within itself. The biggest question is: Who are these in the Government allowing these evils to continue to the extent that the Leader of Government business comes to confess as a frustrated man? Those of my age, if you remember, our neighbour Tanzania used to refer to us as a “man eat man society” and we used to refer to them as a “man eat nothing society”. Now, look, who is laughing the loudest? We have decided to steal everything. The President is busy trying to push the Big Four Agenda and the cartels are trying to push who will be the biggest and remembered most for stealing most. Let us look at simple things; very simple things. Everybody is saying, true to the letter, that when you go to the smallest businessman, there is no sugar in the market. He has to buy it from people who seem to have all the documents. How can you accuse that person? They came to my market and arrested somebody who has been doing that business for many years, selling different things and he has all the papers. Anaambiwa sugar has all kinds of things. Does he have a lab? He has bought it from another huge distributor somewhere in Nairobi yet he is the one 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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