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    "id": 1133652,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Mwathi",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Mungai Mwathi",
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    "content": "how millions came in trucks and canters. How property – I am in property for that matter… In this country prices of property have soared. Moreover, it is a fact you cannot hide. Those properties are where a Member of Parliament cannot even afford to buy a house. They have been propped up by money, which has found itself in an unethical way into our economy. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we just have to save ourselves. We have to save this nation. We have to create it and make it for our future generation. For us to do that, we must pass laws that will bite both ways. If it is going to bite a lawyer, let it bite an architect like myself. If it is going to bite an accountant, let it bite any other advocate or any other profession. However, we cannot say because we have two professions which are only mentioned, then we will throw the baby with the bath water. We just have to fight corruption in the best way possible. We have to fight money laundering. To that extent, I want to persuade all of us that let us also persuade you Chair, even as you make the determination, that you please allow us to debate this issue. If there is any amendment at the Committee of the whole House stage persuaded by the argument of one, Hon. Kaluma, then we can incorporate everybody. However, let us not remove everybody from reporting obligations just because we think two groups have been put there. Therefore, if a non-advocate has ever persuaded you, let me persuade you as an architect. I want to be included in the reporting groups and that everybody else in this country should. Therefore, we should persuade you to rule that we should continue with debate on the Bill as it is, with amendments to follow. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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