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    "id": 1062919,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1062919/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Cecily Mbarire",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13166,
        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
        "slug": "david-ole-sankok"
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    "content": "are people who the word “lockdown” means the end of their livelihood. These are the people in the service industry, transport industry, taxi drivers, matatu drivers, conductors, waiters and waitresses of restaurants and small kiosks that feed many Kenyans in the slums and villages who depend on a day-to-day earning. They are in tears today because they have nothing to turn back to. The challenge for us that sits in this House today is to ask ourselves what is our responsibility as the august House in the budget-making process. Hon. Speaker, I pray that we will be able to come back and transact business in May. When we come back, before we pass the Kshs14 billion for the Building Bridges Initiative, we should remember the people who have lost their jobs and who we need to cushion. How many of us will put those people first before BBI? I know we want to be politically correct by supporting what is fashionable right now – the BBI Constitutional Amendment Bill – but how does that help the common mwananchi who has lost his job? I want to challenge us that even if we were to pass the Kshs14 billion, we must put the interest of those Kenyans who have lost their jobs before that of the BBI. For me, that is more important than anything else."
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