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    "id": 1033947,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1033947/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I confirm and confess here that I asked loudly who the Member was. My definition of literacy is what, I think, confused him. That day, I want us to be sober on this and my good friend, who has talked very well this afternoon, I never mentioned one Raila Odinga in my entire speech and the Deputy Speaker can confirm that. The Hon. Member purported to rise on a point of order and started asking why I was implying that without Raila, there would be no peace in this country. I very well know the implication and the impact of such a statement. I did not take it lightly. In fact, the reason I called the Member, whom I did not know his name then, illiterate, is because my definition of literacy is one who is able to listen, discern, interpret and understand the contribution of another Member. In my view and estimation, he failed the test of a Member who can attentively listen to other Members when they make contributions and interpret what is being discussed. I plead with him that he needs to be listening when we make contributions in this House. Mentioning the name of someone who is not here to defend himself and trying to portray Mbadi as having said something that I did not say, I cannot be irresponsible to imply. If you look at the way the story was captured, not in the Hansard, but in the news that came out of it, it is that Mbadi said: “Without Raila, no peace”. He is the one who said it. I never mentioned Raila’s name."
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