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    "id": 1195721,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1195721/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Gataya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13584,
        "legal_name": "Mwenda Julius Gataya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am shocked beyond repair. I do not understand where this Commission gets its powers from because it has stepped on everybody’s toes; the civil servants, Legislators and MCAs. I have been an MCA for 10 years. On voting day, Kenyans usually vote for six people. However, the MCA carries the biggest burden because he is always at home and interacts with constituents or voters. They are a serious local Automated Teller Machine (ATM), as the National Assembly Speaker used to say. So, striking off the allowances and mortgages from MCAs is a crime against humanity, for that matter. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have risen to quite a number of recommendations, including having this Commission being brought before my Committee. I promise this House that the Committee will make radical recommendations. We will be proposing that this lady and the Commission be disciplined. She is not above the law, this House or anybody. So, we must give her the right medicine when she comes before my Committee. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is bad that we have been belittled, yet we bear the biggest burden in this country. I am still---"
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