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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Budalangi, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Raphael Wanjala",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me the chance to contribute to this important Motion. I have served in Parliament since 1997 when you would come to Parliament and finish five years without doing anything in the constituency, apart from holding harambees . The salary for a Member of Parliament was only Ksh70,000. That was the time when there were many defections from political parties. People would line up at the State House to get even Ksh20,000 or Ksh15,000 for harambees . We sat down and decided otherwise between 1997, 1999 to 2000. It was a very difficult time for Members of Parliament. Members of Parliament slept outside their houses. No Member of Parliament would walk without biker shorts because they could be arrested and charged in court or beaten by the police at any time. The President did not want them to be independent. That is when we established the Parliamentary Service Commission and the NG-CDF. It was not easy. Hon. Raila, whom we served in Parliament, fought equally hard with the late President Kibaki. They fought to help us come up with the NG-CDF after the year 2002 when the late President Moi left office. Raila went even further during the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). He told and requested Members of Parliament to entrench the NG-CDF and other funds in the Constitution. Sometimes, we, Members of Parliament, are our own enemies because we do not want to see the future. We want things that serve our interests. Let us serve the country. Yesterday, Busia County was rated number three for using money well. However, you will never see anything done by the county—only billboards of things that are done by the NG-CDF. There is no other thing that is done by the county."
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