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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ogola",
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    "content": "We do not want to create gods for our people who are already disadvantaged. If you have a funeral, allow people to collect money with the people who believe in the problem that they have and let them support them. If you want to put regulations and give somebody power to give a clearance, we will be creating mini gods who will decide when you will have a problem or need to solve this problem. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is a practise where leaders have to get clearance from elsewhere to hold certain public functions. We have had very embarrassing situations, where the person who hold the power to make clearance decide who holds a function and who does not hold. I want to say that giving is in the heart; it is not how much you give. Let us allow our people the space to give. Let us not call a dog a bad name in order to kill it. Let us not kill the spirit of harambee, but go by the Chapter Six that talks about leadership and integrity. By observing that chapter, we will have done a lot of good to the harambee process. We must also caution leaders who, once they are in position, power gets into their head. I do not have any reason anybody would fly in choppers with bags of money and provoke Kenyans. Specifically, that is what even fanned more of the Gen Z problem, because we had young people with no jobs and they were seeing people flying in this country with money. I support the harambee spirit as was initiated by our forefathers because that is how a number of people have been supported in education. That is a way in which a number of churches and schools were put together. That is how some of the school buses that we see around were bought. Hon. Members have given donations and deposits, but the parents in the school and the surrounding communities are always supported by the harambee spirit. As I end my speech, let us not abuse harambee, but enrich it. Let us encourage that people are able to contribute the little they have that it is voluntary. Giving is in the heart, not how much one gives."
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