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    "id": 1506743,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1506743/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is true what the Majority Whip has said. I accompanied the President to the Catholic Church in Soweto, Embakasi East. When we sat to have a cup of tea with the leadership of that church, they are the ones who sought the President’s help, our help and the help of the Governor of Nairobi to build a house for the father. They also sought help to repair the road to Soweto, which has already been advertised in the papers for rehabilitation. When I saw the Archbishop of the Catholic Church – with all due respect to the Archbishop of the Catholic Church – write a letter that they will return money to the President… I can confirm to the country and to this House that not a shilling or a cent has been returned to the President. When it is returned, there are hundreds of churches who have sent me and the President messages willing to receive the money and do the work of God because it is pleasing to God and not to man, the Bishop or the Archbishop. Respect is earned and it is two-way. We respect our church leaders and they must earn that respect. If you speak at me, I will speak back at you. If you respect me, I will respect you. I heard my Moderator of the Presbyterian Church yesterday saying things that I do not expect a church leader to say of leaders. If you read the Book of Romans, it calls on everybody to obey authority because there is no authority that is not ordained by God himself. God is not the religious leaders. God anoints religious leaders to serve his people. God anoints political leaders and other secular leaders to lead his people and we all serve the same people."
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