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    "id": 1442777,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Onyonka",
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        "legal_name": "Onyonka Richard Momoima",
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    "content": "When the Cabinet Secretary is traveling out of the country and he has how many people accompanying him. He has a private jet, goes to Dubai, books one of those luxury hotels and comes back to Nairobi with the nine people he took in a private jet. You assume that the Gen Z do not know. These days they track you. They can know which private jet you took, where it went and how it came back. Many of us are worried either because of history or what has happened. We have a lot of money and own so much land. Please, allow us to have spatial planning. We can have an implemented law in this House to protect even your identity. However, please stop stealing public land. Let us have mercy on our people. You saw people from Eldoret and Kakamega talking about their shambas, which their grandfathers left for them; that people, who are MPs and Senators, chase them away, and then throw them into court and bribe the courts. I want to talk about the Judiciary. We respect you. We know that most of the time you are under pressure. We know there are certain things that you can even be blackmailed on, but we want to hold you at a higher standard. We must hold the Judiciary, the legislature and the President at a higher standard. That is how we can move as a country and stop this nonsense. We are behaving like monkeys running through a forest looking for bananas without knowing whether it is bananas they want or it is oranges. Madam Temporary Speaker, finally I really want to say that I was nearly giving up on my country, but I have changed my mind because of today. The young men who are fighting for this country have done us proud. Let us treat them with dignity. Let us make sure we engage them. Let us stop doing the things that make them angry, desperate and upset with the ruling class. The truth is that if this country breaks down, it takes all of us down. I was in South Sudan when we were doing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. I visited as a young Minister, to go and do what was called a referendum. I have been to Khartoum and Mali. If you look at how the political class has treated their people; everybody looks destitute and everybody is desperate. Let us change our ways. We can run the country peacefully and make sure that everybody is a person of dignity. Let us treat our people kindly. A country that never takes care of its most vulnerable is a country that is not worth talking about. I want to tell the Members of the County Assembly, the Members of Parliament and the Senators, your job is to oversight. Let the governors run the county. If they bribe you, you will not get development. Let us agree that those are the rules that we will have to operate with. Let us share the cake of this country equitably and fairly. Let us not have one region getting Kshs50 billion, while another has got only Kshs1.2 billion. Why should we have three scholarship funds in this country? Those are some of the things, without speaking too much, I want to vent about. I thank all my colleagues for having shown our country the love that it deserves. I thank you."
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