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    "id": 1169463,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1169463/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 407,
        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker for this opportunity. From the onset, I would like to support this Motion on the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the County Government Additional Allocation Cash Disbursement Schedule for the Financial Year 2021/2022. Before I give my submissions, I would like to recognize and encourage young students from Kajiado. I like the teachers that brought them to the Senate to see the kind of things that we discuss here. After this submission, I hope I will meet and talk to them in detail. They have an opportunity to defend this country. We are all Christians or Muslims in this House. If you read the Book of Ecclesiastes, it talks about vanity. When the preacher was talking about David, it talked about generations that will come and go but this world remains. Currently, these students are alive to the fact that the Masaais of Tanzania who have their relatives in Kenya are being terrorised, stigmatized, subjected to extremist measures and their existence is in jeopardy yet we talk about having the East African Community(EAC). For the last seven days, I have been lobbying people from our neighbouring countries. We talk about having the EAC. What is the point of us having it when our neighbours and relatives are crying and we continue to pretend that we do not know the challenges they are facing? Mr. Speaker, Sir, these students---"
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