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    "id": 1442889,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "This House is saying “No”. It is because of that anger that our children did what you saw. People are angry and hate us as leadership because every weekend, helicopters crisscross the skies going to functions where these millions are being dished out. The fuel guzzlers that we drive; if you go to the parking, you can see the difference between the four-wheel driven by your Senators compared to those driven by Members of the National Assembly. In the parking of the Senate, you will see Prados. However, in the parking of the National Assembly, you will see high-end vehicles that sometimes you only see--- Why is it so? It is because of an unconstitutional fund called National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF). The courts made a pronouncement that it was unconstitutional and illegal. How did we respond as Parliament? The National Assembly, without blinking an eye, went and exercised legislative impunity by twisting the Act, so as to be allowed to continue with that unconstitutional and illegal process. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I speak to these guzzlers, colleagues, you have seen how as you struggle to rush to this Senate, then an MP or a Secretary General of a political party comes with chase cars, his vehicle having the national flag with a siren, and the police does not arrest those people. The law is very clear on who should fly the national flag, and whose convoy should be cleared with sirens. This is the impunity that is making our young people to turn against us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I celebrate the President for the remark he made on Sunday during the interview that he was filling questions. I did not support the fact that the President was filling questions. This is because I know that the President has people who are supposed to have filled those questions. As the Senate Majority Leader was saying, the responses to security that the President was doing, should either have been done by regular briefs by the Inspector General of Police, or by Prof. Kithure Kindiki. Why was the President being humiliated by the people of the media? However, I am celebrating for accepting that we have wasteful expenditure in several offices in this country. The respected Prof. Githu Muigai gave while in office, a legal advisory opinion on something called the Office of the First Lady. I urge you, colleagues, to go and read that opinion. He convinced me and those who will read it after me, that the issue of First Lady is foreign to our Constitution."
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