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    "id": 1009058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Statement by our colleague Sen. Kihika. A government that has no regard for the poor and downtrodden has no business being in power. The current administration has continuously shown its total disregard and disdain for the poor, especially those who live along this region. On many occasions, we have invited this particular CS to come to this House and give a justifiable explanation why the KFS continues to meet the kind of injustices that he passes on to these citizens. However, on all the occasions, times without number, there is no day that a committee of this House has responded. This is the fourth or fifth Statement that has come to this House yet no response has come. Madam Deputy Speaker, I challenge our colleague, the Chairperson of the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I can see Sen. Mwangi, a gentleman that I hold in high regard, is seated here. Please, instead of conducting your business in this well air-conditioned offices here in Nairobi, visit these particular areas and acquaint yourselves with the disputes. This is so that you understand the pain that many of those young women and children continue to face in light of a Government that has completely lost its place and has no business being in office. In fact, if there was to be a popular uprising against this current administration on account of what they are doing to the children of Mau, I would be among the people who will go to the streets. Yesterday we saw the CS appearing before a committee of Parliament saying, for the residents who live here in Nairobi, because they are rich people and they can afford lawyers, that they want to engage them. However, every time when it is the people of Kariobangi or Gikomba, they are evicted mercilessly because they cannot defend themselves. I look upon our colleagues and plead with you. Please stand up for the poor. They have nobody else to speak on their behalf."
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