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    "id": 206050,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/206050/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 326,
        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you can recall that when hon. Kajwang was contributing on the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, he made wild allegations on the probity of Equity Bank. When he was challenged to substantiate the claims that he had made, he purported to lay on the table some documents, which to date, we do not know their authenticity. It is only proper and dignified that the Floor of this House should not be used to score political mileage and destroy the character and honour of persons or institutions that cannot defend themselves on the Floor. I am, therefore, respectively, requesting the Chair to make a ruling on the status of those documents; where they are and whether they are authentic and admissible in terms of our Standing Orders. Equally, the Chair has a duty and a responsibility to protect innocent citizens of this country and innocent business institutions from unwarranted attacks in disguise of parliamentary privilege. I, therefore, would like to seek that the Chair gives a ruling on the authenticity of those documents. I also further seek that if those documents are not authentic and cannot be substantiated fully, all that matter that pertains to those wild allegations be expunged from the records of this House."
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