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    "id": 1496935,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1496935/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Oburu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "At Independence, people spoke of three enemies of the people of Kenya. They were poverty, illiteracy and disease. The Independent Government endeavoured to eliminate these enemies in the spirit of harambee because poverty levels in our country were very high. Over the period, more than 60 or 70 years now, we have not been able to deal with these enemies of our people effectively. Poverty, disease, and illiteracy still persist because we still have problems even in our education sector. That is the reason people are passionate about harambees. We are defending harambees because successive governments have been unable to eliminate, eradicate or reduce substantially these enemies of our people. These are disease, illiteracy, and poverty. If you are a representative of people and go home over the weekend, people come to see you because they have medical problems or are unable to pay school fees for their children. Some of them cannot even provide food for their families. That is a big shame to our country! Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, our people remain poor, but a few people have managed to become wealthy such that they can even expose it everywhere. They throw money everywhere and fly in choppers because we are not strictly implementing our laws. I like this Constitution of 2010 because it protects the rights of people. Those rights cannot be fulfilled if we are not serious about managing our resources properly. There are rights in our Constitution such as; the right to education, the right to life, the right to decent living and decent housing and so on and so forth. We have Chapter Six of the Constitution which deals with leadership and integrity because corruption is normally done by the leadership of the country. The leadership of the country is the one that exposes excessive opulence in public. Therefore, public anger grows slowly until it reaches a point of explosion. That is what you people saw when we had the Gen Z protests. The reason I support this Bill is because the way harambees have been managed is not right. Harambees have even been harmful to our people. It is not right even for our own people. These harambees have been harmful to our people. When I was a Member of Parliament (MP) and managing the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), I went to schools and asked the principals of the schools what they would he prefer between NG-CDF and harambees? Any principal will tell you that they prefer harambees because the money is not audited. It is loose money which he can use for any purpose he likes. Without regulating it, our people will continue to see big monies being raised in those institutions, and yet the result on the ground is almost zero. I can give you an example of an instance when I went to my old school where I schooled. I went there to do a harambee to build for them a dormitory. I found the students congested in the dormitories and I wanted to build a dormitory for them. I called my friends, including Governor Orengo and many others and The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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