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    "id": 1100194,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1100194/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "In any case, this good salary that you are paid; these nice suits that you are wearing are paid for by taxpayers, those people of Laikipia. So, what is so difficult in us going to that particular part of the country and listening to their problems? Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to plead with you that at least grant us an opportunity because just saying casually that this matter is referred to the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations, all of us know what will happen. We have seen those things; they have appeared before us and that matter is swiftly swept under the carpet. This is the danger of going to bed with the Executive. When the CS for Interior appeared before the National Assembly Committee, at the same time it was being reported that a Member of this House was collecting signatures to invite him. He said: “Security has nothing to do with the Senate, those are idlers”. He said it on record; go to the HANSARD of the National Assembly. He said they have no business with this House. This is because he knows in any case when they appear before us, we are struggling for photo opportunities with them. Can we be serious as a House? I want to plead for the life of us, for the time that is left, the 10 months, let us do justice and be the House that for once and for all resolves this issue of Laikipia so that we will be remembered as an institution that---"
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