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    "id": 1538156,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1538156/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to start where Hon. Jematiah has left off. I have listened to Members very carefully. As they spoke, they thanked the two principals for creating opportunities, not necessarily for the specific positions that people have been given to some members. We are living in a very difficult time – a time that requires some very difficult decisions to be made. I thank Hon. (Dr) William Ruto and Hon. Raila Odinga for realising that Kenya needs to be united. When times are difficult, people need to move together. If there is anything that we need in this very difficult economic time, it is a working government. Going forward, I hope we shall be a House that will be remembered for coming up with the best, extremely objective laws. Amongst us are people we imagine supporting the government when they are not actually doing the work they are supposed to do. I believe that going forward, given the redistribution of the leadership of the House that has taken place, everybody will be objective. I have in mind the Finance Bill, but I do not want to revisit it. As a House, I do not think we were objective in our debate. We lost that Bill not because it was bad, but because we decided not to be objective as a House. Hon. Speaker, moving forward, now that we are together as a House, let us support this Government to deliver. It is because we are all in it. I hope that whatever laws we make in this House going forward will benefit Kenyans. Kenyans are watching, and they need to have confidence in this House. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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