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    "id": 1442642,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1442642/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13219,
        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "social media. The major attack is on how the President has exercised power. That is the problem. If we do not acknowledge that as a House, we will not be able to solve the challenges we are facing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the feeling is that the President has not allowed Parliament - both the Senate and the National Assembly - to carry out its duties as an independent institution. Most of these unpopular legislations that triggered these demonstrations were pushed through the two Houses. There is the Affordable Housing Bill that created the now Affordable Housing Act. It was pushed through. If we had adopted a bipartisan approach, we would have made that law less punitive to Kenyans. If you listen to young professionals – the doctors, lawyers and others, they are crying about an invasion on their payslip. Even those who work for Parliament, their cry is that they are facing a Government that is raiding their pockets day in, day out. Their pockets were raided in the first budget and in the second budget. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of corruption, I will join my colleague Sen. Cheruiyot in saying that we will not fix it unless we have a radical surgery on the EACC. I will give an example on what happened in the County of Nyamira. In the month of August, 2022, just in the runner-up to elections, the Governor of Nyamira, unilaterally paid himself to his account"
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