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    "id": 1568036,
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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "That is somebody who now pontificates as if he is God. You heard what he told artists in Mount Kenya region over the weekend. The artists had sought his help when he was holding a high Government office, but he did not have time for them. He told them to sort out their copyright issues with Skiza Tunes. He now wants to command them on who they will sing to, what songs they will sing, when they will sing and how they will sing. He told them that unless they sing songs of praise to him, they should not perform. He even dared businesses owned by entrepreneurial hardworking Kenyans who have established clubs. He is inciting Kenyans to storm those clubs and destroy them because an artist whom he does not like performs in such clubs. This is the height of evil minds and thoughts by an evil man who sees nothing good in this country except that which satisfies his insatiable greed - greed that even public coffers could not satisfy. You have seen him admonish other leaders because of programmes that empower the same people for whom we advance the Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), because they are now being supported by leaders who utilise resources in the right way. You are in high office and you use public office to acquire private resources, including stealing from your own family? That is somebody who can steal from a widow and orphans. These are allegations that were tabled here during the impeachment process. He forged the will of his late brother – the hardworking former governor of Nyeri – disinherited the widows and the orphans of the family and used his high office to intimidate and threaten that family not to speak. Thank God, this House rose to the occasion to save not just that family, but the country against the machinations of a very evil and dark soul. I will take you back to the events of last year. Kenyans will remember, after what happened on 25th June, the kind of incitement they saw from the same person because he believes in bloodshed. Unless people die, he cannot achieve his mission. From the Floor of this House, let us say that no other Kenyan will die to satisfy the insatiable greed of a dark man with a dark soul and a very evil mind. No Kenyan should ever die for politics. I agree with Hon. Junet that never again should we entertain politics of bloodshed in this country. The last election vindicated Kenyans by showing that they believe in one unitary nation, a nation that cannot be divided by the insatiable greed for power and material wealth by one man."
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