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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1355310/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": "commodities are being imported, but Kenyans do not know who is importing them. Kenyans need to be told, in the spirit of transparency, who the people who are doing those businesses are. They are not being brought by foreigners or by people who are not known. We must make sure that we call a spade a spade. If this Bill is good for everyone, let us pass it so that this country can be saved once and for all. The Leader of the Majority Party has said that he became an old man when President Kibaki was in power. Before then, he was walking around with pants in Kikuyu Constituency, on the streets of Kikuyu Township. I agree with him. The same was true for me in Migori Town. We have the Committee on Implementation, which is supposed to follow up to ensure the implementation of all the statutes that pass in this House. There are many statutes we have passed that are good, but they are gathering dust on some shelves somewhere. At the end of the year or every session, we will say that we passed, say, 150 Bills as a house. How many are functioning? How many are implemented? How many have not been implemented? As I said on the issue of conflict of interest – and I will repeat – as long as civil servants and State officers engage in private businesses, conflict of interest will always be there. If we want to address this problem genuinely, when issues of butchery and meat are being discussed, for example, the Leader of the Majority Party must declare his interest and say that he is a butcher man – that, he runs butcheries in Kikuyu Town and cannot, therefore, involve himself in discussing such matters. If we know that he runs butcheries, that is the way the matter will be handled. He cannot supply meat to Parliament, for example, because we know that he runs butcheries. That is the right way to do it. I am only using him as an example."
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