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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Besides the money and service to God and humanity that the President engaged in, he promised the people of Soweto that that road would be rehabilitated. The money for rehabilitating that road by KURA will come from the Fuel Levy. I do not need to belabour this point but I want to take this opportunity to request the Council of Governors to adopt the give and take attitude that the two Houses of Parliament have adopted in this mediation process. Let them give in on the Fuel Levy and we will support them in everything else they want to do. However, please, let them stop pitting themselves in a fight against Members of Parliament. These Members of Parliament have no business to do with roads. I have due respect to the former Prime Minister. I know he had his views on this matter, having engaged him on it. Members of Parliament are the first point of call by their constituents when roads are dilapidated in their constituencies. Governors are never seen anywhere. There is a case in one of the counties where a Member of Parliament neighbours a governor. The governor has seven Administration Police officers guarding his residence but the Member of Parliament has none. Everybody flocks to the Member of Parliament's office on issues of healthcare, food, funerals, hospital bills, and roads. Nobody ever goes near the governor's residence. I do not want to say that they have elevated themselves to small gods or anything. However, they need to open up and be accessible to their people. These Members of Parliament are elected the same way governors are elected. Therefore, they cannot bear an unequal share of the burden of the people's problems than governors. Members of Parliament supervising work done by the"
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