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    "id": 1196505,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia East, TSP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kiunjuri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As you are aware, we are not yet settled because at the end of the day we do not have substantive Cabinet Secretaries. We need Cabinet Secretaries who are fully in the office where we can present our problems. Already, there are so many problems facing this country such as the issue of drought. We do not have somewhere to present them because the President alone cannot run this Government. Hon. Speaker, I was charged 17 times before I become a Member of Parliament and in all those cases none of them could stand the test of time. We cannot judge, as Members of Parliament, because you are already judged out there. We have to give people an opportunity to be heard at any level, so that at least it is not about regimes judging us. If these people had been judged during the regime of His Excellency the late Mwai Kibaki, then we can say there was a bit of fairness. Some of us have been taken through the Directorate of Criminal Investigation nine times and left free. To date, we have not been charged for any of the cases. It is not fair that Members who knew how the previous regime operated can be sitting here…"
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