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    "id": 1490292,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13599,
        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, every time I have stood here, I have always implored my colleagues to always remember that we exist in a certain context. You cannot be tone deaf. On an afternoon when somebody has just brought a Statement here on the dire state of affairs at the Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in terms of the capacity to hold our women giving birth, then Members stand up and start claiming that they have not been able to access tea, mandazi or a health club. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a member of the SBC, I am going to be pushing very hard that the conduct and pronouncement of certain Members, even the Bills that they bring before this House, are accosting the image of this House, because they are tone deaf. How can somebody just stand up out of nowhere, propose a constitutional amendment to extend his own term when he is here and was elected for five years? Then the rest of us are supposed to be dragged through this shame because people are looking for clout, bringing very useless Bills here instead of addressing the things that are facing wananchi. This is why I want to encourage our colleagues, because the majority of the Members of this House know what brought them here. Some of us have never even gone to a sauna; a Bukusu man like myself. What is a sauna? I do not know. That is not why I was sent here. I was sent here to bring money for the people of Nairobi so that the Governor can complete the new maternity wing at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. We need to call out these Members who repeatedly bring shame to this House by bringing up ridiculous ideas and thoughts and painting them as if they are the thinking of the entire House. This is not why we were elected."
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