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    "id": 184011,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/184011/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the USA, had a famous desk on which he advertised one sublime reality of leadership and it was only four words: \"The buck stops here\". This Government cannot run away from the responsibility that, indeed, they have owned the people of Budalangi the responsibility to ensure that the work, be it dyking or damming, to protect them from floods is good and can sustain the pressure. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am not asking the Government to compensate the people of Budalangi because of a disaster. No! I am asking the Government to compensate the people of Budalangi for failing in its duty to protect the people from the disaster. Finally, what we are asking for is very minimal. This House voted the other day to compensate Mau Mau veterans who lost their land. They were to be compensated an amount of money running into millions of Kenya shillings. We are only asking for an estimated amount of about Kshs800 million. According to our initial estimate, Kshs800 million is a drop in the sea. I urge this Government to look at the issue and let this be a lesson that in future, it must take its duty of care to the people of Kenya seriously."
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