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    "id": 1215317,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "As I look back, I say that the Majority is not always right because as we lost our fight against the joint venture, little did the Majority know that we were right. Today, when Kenya lost an investment of Kshs650 million in a joint venture with De La Rue, the company has walked out. They have suspended the contract of printing Kenyan currency. Today we have 300 workers who have been rendered jobless by De La Rue accompanied with another 3,000 Kenyans who have lost jobs in the supply chain of the currency printing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when hon. Muthama was a Senator in this House he demonstrated that he was indeed a son of the struggle to the extent that there was a time that hon. Muthama, Sen. Orengo, Sen. Wetangula and I created a tag team, went to the National Assembly and pleaded with them to be aware of poor legislation. Those were the days of the tyranny of numbers. Thanks to the tyranny of numbers, we visited this House and this country with the infamous miscellaneous laws on our security. Again, the Majority won in this House, but we, the Minority, went to court and we won. In some of the cases, hon. Muthama literally used to pay for us. Hon. Muthama has left strong footprints in the struggle for good leadership. I remember when I would sit down with him for many hours plotting how to make Raila Odinga stronger and we did. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we were defeated in the election and were forced to go to the opposition, again, we faced Raila and told him that you do not just oppose for the sake of opposing; you must be a responsible opposition. That is how we broke out with him because he decided to lie to Kenyans to go to Uhuru Park and he swore himself in as the President. To do good politics, you do not always have to oppose everything for the sake of it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am glad that I have put my name on this particular Motion. I hope that when hon. Muthama comes, he will be the same man of integrity that he has been all these years. I support."
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