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    "id": 129987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am afraid it is quite possible that because of global warming and destruction of forests, clean water has disappeared from his constituency. Therefore, he does not know what it looks like. But to the ordinary Kenyan, I just raise this bottle. This is clean water. Dirty water would look otherwise. All that I am saying is that the House as the supreme lawmaker under Section 30 of the Constitution and Section 37, has a right to act in anger if it suspects the law it has passed may not have been applied. That is one thing. That is the suspicion that I see in the faces of my colleagues. But on the other hand, that is what we would call muddled water. Until such a time as evidenced and proper evidence is produced to suggest that the anti corruption law has been violated or something wrong has been done, it is not right to mix up the anger arising from that act with the duty of this House to make sure that we allow the debate on the Bill that is on the Floor and whose expedition is being sought. As the Minister responsible has said, this a matter that touches on the hearts and minds of the Kenyan people. They are hurting. In case we have forgotten, people do not have food and jobs. Yet the monies governed by the Appropriation Bill are the monies that will attempt in a small measure, to put Kenyans on the right path of addressing those issues like hunger, lack of water, lack of employment and infrastructure and many others. I want to plead with my colleagues that the Motion on the Floor is fair and it be heard. By waiting another two days, that Appropriation Bill will not change by a comma or a full stop. Why? Because we have already debated and passed each individual vote all the way to the guillotine. Therefore, it is fair; it is legitimate for the Kenyan people that we do our work for the welfare of Kenyans and in due course, at the right opportunity, we address the suspicion, anger and disquiet that, legitimately so in some respect, accompanies the extension of the term of the Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). I plead that we should not mix the two."
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