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    "id": 807468,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/807468/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The first question I ask myself is what we are talking about. We are talking about poisonous sugar having found itself in Kenya. When you talk about contraband and you use flashy language, it looks like it is something interesting. But we are talking about toxic sugar. We are talking about poison in this country in the name of food given to Kenyans to feed on because some greedy individuals have decided that they must be wealthy by killing Kenyans. Murderous are in this country walking free and we are talking as if these people cannot be found. How can that be when we are paying and allocating resources to the NIS to protect the lives of Kenyans? The worst part of this is that this is poison that you are consuming without knowing. We are committing suicide in our numbers without knowing that we are committing suicide. This is a matter that we should be very serious about, more particularly, where the names are already known, action must be taken. This is something that we cannot try to cover or clothe in any way. I said earlier that sugar or anything looking like sugar cannot find itself in this country. These imports come through our borders. We have security organs like the NIS and the Director of Criminal Investigation. These organs are paid. We allocate money for them to protect us. We do not want to see the security organs raiding and invading business premises. We want people to be taken to court immediately, charged and prosecuted. These are people who should actually go through sentencing like murderers. They should either be given death sentences or life sentences. They are murderers. If you sell poison to someone knowingly, are you not a murderer? You are. You are worse than a murderer who is approaching me with a weapon because I can avoid it. I can try to run away. But on this one, you cannot because you do not even know that what you are being given is laced with toxic substances. This is a matter that we need to be serious about. I listened to the Woman Representative for Kirinyaga County and much as I agree with her that there are issues of corruption that we need to address, this is even a worse case of 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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