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    "id": 1373662,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1373662/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "serious project for the President. It must succeed and it will not succeed if there is indiscipline and the law is not followed to the letter. I have looked at who are represented in the board that is being proposed. I am, again, going to plead with the Leader of the Majority Party that in that board, we must have a person from the jua kali sector. In that board, get a person from the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) — guys who sell the materials for construction. Let us not just have the Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE)and Central Organization of Trade Unions (COTU). Let us also have the jua kali sector, who are supposed to benefit from this programme, so that they are also represented. I plead with those doing this project. We cannot be demolishing good houses to build better houses. We have to negotiate. You cannot go to Kakamega or Bungoma and demolish houses that were built two to three days ago. Those are people who have not done anything wrong. Talk to them. Agree with them that yes, we want to build a bigger thing here. We cannot be allowing Chinese to be building very serious things in Kileleshwa interfering with our planning and then you go to Bungoma and Kakamega and demolish people’s houses there. Let us do this in a humane manner. Let us make this work for Kenyans. Where Kenyans have concerns, let us address them. I want to finish by saying that..."
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