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    "id": 169920,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/169920/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 91,
        "legal_name": "Ndiritu Muriithi",
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    "content": "I have in mind my Ol Kalou Town Council. Since the pyrethrum, wool and milk industries collapsed, the council has no source of income. Maize crop attracts very little income. As a result, the council is forced to collect levies from matatus and bus owners and this raises the cost of transport. I am appealing to the Government to sympathise with the councillors, who have been elected just like the Members. When we come for debate in Nairobi and stay in Nairobi for a week, a councillor has no escape route. He stays with the local people and as such he is overburdened with the peoples' problems. The Government should be pro-active and look at the councillors as elected people. The people who have elected them pay taxes and for that reason, councillors are entitled to a remuneration from the Consolidated Fund. If that is done, they will not be running away from the people, but will respond to issues which would have been brought to us."
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