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    "id": 1349633,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chute",
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        "legal_name": "Chute Mohamed Said",
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    "content": "I know our Senate Majority leader is here today and he is listening. Even if it will take us to have a Kamukunji to discuss this matter, we need to do so as soon as possible. If we are strong, PAP will be even stronger. The reason we have the PAP, is so that it adopts the same thing that we are discussing here as one unit. When we were in Zambia with President Ruto, he talked about Pan Africanism. He talked about currency and asked a very simple question, “why do we make our payments in United States Dollars (USD)? Why are we not paying in Tanzanian or Kenyan Shilling, the Ethiopian Birr or the African currency called the Pan African money? The people there were so happy and they supported it. This is what we must try and do. Madam Temporary Speaker, the first time I went to Dubai was in the 1990s. At that time, one US Dollar was 3.65 Dirhams. Even today, it is still equivalent to 3.65 Dirhams. When I first went to Dubai, the exchange rate for the Kenyan shilling was Kshs38 to the US Dollar. What the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Government did was to stabilize their currency. Today, if you look at the world market, we have the UAE Dirhams. If you can do business in Dirhams, why not the Pan African currency? I commend MPs from Kenya. I have watched Sen. Mungatana on many occasions talking and representing us with a lot of qualification and experience. Leaders in this Senate should help and facilitate them. They must not travel from their pockets but from Government resources. This is public not Government resources. It is us, the people of Kenya, who are paying. We are not representing ourselves in this Senate, but Kenyans. We are here to represent them to the best of our ability. If we do not have money to travel and food to eat, how can you expect Sen. Mungatana to represent us at the PAP in absentia? If he is not there, he cannot represent us. Having said that, Senate Majority Leader, please, take note of what Sen. Mungatana has said. I support."
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