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    "id": 1522776,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to add a few things to what the Leader of the Majority Party has said. This issue of RMLF has been on this Floor now for some time, since last Parliament. I have realised there is a systematic programme going on in this country to disconnect Members of this House from the public completely. I do not know where that plan is hatched. I do not know whether it is in the Executive, Judiciary or somewhere else. There is a serious plan to disconnect Members of Parliament, especially Members of the National Assembly, from the public. People tell me that it is not my work to bring development to the people. If I cannot bring development to them, what is the constitutional requirement of representation? You represent people so that you can speak on their behalf on the Floor of the House to get resources for them, if I understand it well. This is something that this House will not accept. Look at what is happening in the counties. We are not against devolution. We support it completely. However, we have to re-analyse, since the last 10 or 12 years, whether it has worked for this country. The only thing we see in it are conferences every year that show us beans, ndengu, carrots, cucumber and cassavas grown in our areas. Those things have been happening since Independence. My grandmother has been growing cassavas since Kenya became independent. That is what you are shown in devolution conferences. There is nothing serious that has happened since devolution came into place. Truth must be said. We must be truthful to the people."
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