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    "id": 1067974,
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    "speaker_name": "Migori CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Pamela Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "Pamela Awuor Ochieng",
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    "content": "always had difficulties in determining even serious glaring cases of corruption, stealing and looting of public funds at the expense of doing the development that I hear some of my colleagues are purporting to stop, claiming that Kenya is suffering due to BBI and the pandemic. Allow me to bring it to the attention of this House, that as far as I can remember I know Kenya’s economy has been bleeding since 2013 all the way up to now. There was no pandemic or BBI. Those who claim that BBI is an expensive process that takes a lot of money at the expense of the development that is supposed to go to the people, never raised their voices when we were crying about the billions that were lost in Arror and Kimwarer dams. As a born again Christian in this House, allow me to bring to the attention of this House that when we are talking about this Bill, we are looking at cultivating national unity, promoting the wellbeing of the family and promoting the respect for parents and elders. Allow me at this juncture to quote my good book the Bible in Ephesians 6:1- 4. God is talking to us and saying, honour your father and mother in the Lord, for this is the first commandment with a promise, that you may live long. In our country much as we are religious; Christians, Muslims or Hindus, we have seen moral decadence among our youth, where there is disrespect even for the family virtues. We have seen young people lose their lives even when they were supposed to live. So, I want to declare that I support this Bill, so that we can restore order, morality and holiness in our homes and obedience of our young people to the elderly. We believe that the older one becomes, the wiser they become and they make better leaders for our youth. That was exemplified the other day when you gave us such a long beautiful ruling that made me settle and say, yes, we have a Speaker who is a legal expert in the House. Thank you for doing that."
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