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    "id": 1506741,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506741/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "We do so because we are actualising the manifesto that we sold to Kenyans because we want to remain true to the people and to God. As my Moderator, you cannot admonish me simply because you hail from Nyeri and you think that the impeachment process moved with speed. That is what is expected of us under the Constitution. The Constitution gives us timelines on when and how to prosecute an impeachment process. Hon. Junet has done well to raise this issue. We must not be afraid to tell our religious leaders that, as the Book of Hebrews states, even when we do good and give in church, we do not do so to please the bishop, moderator, reverend or the church members. We do so because the Good Book tells us to do good and communicate, because it is pleasing to God. I do not go to church to please my moderator, neither do I go to satisfy the whims of my reverend. I go to church because it is pleasing to my God, and I shall continue to do so. Our religious class should not imagine that they can intimidate us. I have never walked into a church and asked a single religious leader to give me an opportunity to speak. I am glad that I do not patronise one of the mainstream churches in Nairobi, together with the Member for Kiminini, Hon. Kakai Bissau. We go to church, sit, listen to the sermon and leave. We never ask anybody to give us an opportunity to address the congregation. When the church holds a fundraising event, I have never seen a single politician invite himself to those events. Church leaders must not make it look like we invite ourselves to churches to contribute money. There are many other places we can take that money."
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