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    "id": 1062984,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kabuchai, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Majimbo Kalasinga",
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        "legal_name": "James Lusweti Mukwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to take part in this very important Motion. First, I join my friends to thank you in making very wise decisions today. This is because at first, I thought we, as Parliament, are just a rubber-stamp. From the way you have taken the direction, we respect you. As they want to make you a leader in different communities, also I believe we can make you a Luhya elder. Having said so, I also want to make a few comments. First, the police should not take advantage and rip-off our people. It is painful to note that the poverty index out there is so high that you can, for real, find a citizen particularly our old women, without masks. It is not because they do not want to put on masks, it is because of the poverty that is out there. It is very bad for police officers to capitalise on the prevailing poverty conditions to arrest people and demand Kshs3,000 from each person. That is painful. We must make stringent rules for police officers to know that we are in an extraordinary situation which they must not use to their own advantage. Two, my simple observation is that some people have feared to be vaccinated. Some people fear injections. If it was ingestible, we could give it to some old women. Some women have stayed for long without receiving injections. So, when we talk of injections, we are putting them off. I am sorry to say that some Members of Parliament have not gone for the vaccine. I have taken it. It pains me as a Member of Parliament to see how people are suffering down there without support during these hard times, when one can just pass by the doorway of KEMSA and carry billions away. It pains me when we are dealing with Kenyans who are responsible for some institutions. They must be responsible and share this as a problem together, not to use it as a rip- off to gain money. If we had powers, we would have a corridor where one of them would be slaughtered and hanged so that when we want to interview people from KEMSA, they would pass through that corridor and see that hanged head before they come here to answer questions. Finally, Hon. Speaker, now that we have adjourned and I am not in any committee, what will I tell the people of Kabuchai? Will I go and sit with them or will I have time to sit in any of the committees? I take this to your feet. Protect the people of Kabuchai. They will not be happy to see me home. They will think you have chased me from this House when my friends are suffering. I will proceed to learn since I am on the course to learn. I thank you for giving me this time."
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