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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": " Thank very much, Hon. Speaker. After we had an issue here on 25th June 2024, the following Sunday I tried to attend a church, a men’s conference in Ruiru Constituency. Immediately I entered that church that I do not worship in, people started singing as I walked towards my seat, “Two million; Two million!” I am not a Member of Parliament elected to represent the people of Ruiru Constituency. I was left wondering, if that is what I was facing, a person elected in a constituency that is about 500 kilometres away from Ruiru, what about the MP for Ruiru Constituency. I could not help but sympathise with the situation. This is what the Members are talking about. The Members seated on the opposite side of this House may not be aware of what these Members seated on this side went through. It is extremely difficult to just say, “please forgive me\". To them it sounds so easy, but what we are asking for is that the MP goes an extra mile. To some of us who campaigned for him, some of us who went out there when he was vying in the first term and when he did not even know us by name and people contributed... In his second term, he came to my office when he had a petition and we actually won in the petition. He was awarded costs. He did not even forgive the petitioner. In fact, he told me that we must attach his property yet he is here telling us that we forgive him when we have lost millions of shillings worth of properties across the country. Hon. Chieni of Kieni Constituency lost three supermarkets worth Ksh500 million plus a house. People sang at his house claiming that he had received Ksh2 million. In the minds of people in the villages, they think that Ksh2 million is a huge amount of money that can be used to build supermarkets and stock them."
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