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    "id": 1063206,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 129,
        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
        "slug": "james-orengo"
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    "content": "I know the governors are now making a lot of noise about how the Senate is doing nothing. However, they have already smelt and built castles. They are not seeing the roads that they should be building. They are seeing something else. For example, when they meet the Senator for Nandi County, they make a lot of noise because he has been making noise because of what has been happening in Nandi. However, when the money comes, nobody calls you. They are just concerned about the noise that you are making. However, when the money comes, they will never tell you, “my Senator, please, come we want to look at this. Do you have any ideas?” The President should not mince his words and actions. The amount of Kshs2 billion being spent every day, is a leakage. For example, if your house was leaking Kshs2 billion, that is a whole month rain. It is a flood or tsunami. Madam Deputy Speaker, this nation has real shock absorbers. If you hear what is stolen every day and we are still surviving and breathing, we have great shock absorbers. God was great to this nation because we have a lot of patience. There is a time in Italy if a person stole something, he or she was shot by a person on a motorbike. They did not shoot to kill, they would shoot on the knees to disable you. In some nations, a person is taken to the firing squad. However, we are a country of laws. When you look at the reports of the Auditor-General, we are gangsters. We are a nation not just of thieves. This is a bandit economy and we must describe it as such. We cannot say that the people of Kenya are wrong. It is those who are given responsibility to look after this institution. Sen. Omogeni is here and he likes reading about the Congress. In the United States of America (USA), if you are summoned to appear before the House of Congress, however mighty a person is, he or she will leave everything to appear before the House of Congress. We have a situation in this country where the mighty and law are law unto themselves. They begin to wonder why the Senate would summon them. The day they were made Cabinet Secretaries, they swear by the Almighty God and they are very excited. However, they do not read the kind of legal edicts which are part of the law of the land, for example, the section that says that the Parliament can summon anybody at any time."
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