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    "id": 1370182,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1370182/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Yesterday, I heard somebody telling us to put Ksh6 billion into the Political Parties Fund at a time when Kenyans are marooned by floods. All that the Azimio Coalition can do is to ask for money to hold rallies and hold political party caucuses. I support what this House did - removing money from the Political Parties Fund and taking it to the people of northern Kenya, who are living without food and medicines after being cut out by floods. It is the height of irresponsibility by part of the leadership of this country to ask for money to buy bread, tea and mandazis at some place in Lavington or Capital Hill at the expense of Kenyans yet when they speak at funerals, they tell us that the cost of living is high. How do you bring down the cost of living by putting money in the Political Parties Fund to fund your political activities? We need to be honest with each other. We need to look at each other in the eye, just like I am looking at Hon. (Dr) Nyikal, and tell each other the truth. We are not helping this country by playing politics with the dire situation of our economy. We are not bold enough to tell Kenyans that the cost of living is where it is largely because of missteps of the last regime that we were cheering on. We had what was infamously called the handshake. God forbid that handshake will ever set foot in this country again. You remember we had a mongrel of a system of Government that was called handshake where there was no Government; there was no opposition. I am glad we transformed ourselves. We were even referred to in derogatory terms like tangatanga, but we transformed ourselves into an opposition that kept them on their toes. Even as we did so, they still had the guts to steal Ksh6 billion two days before the general election, and here they are today speaking against us. Let me leave it there."
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