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    "id": 222697,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/222697/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Administration and National Security",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am responding to the Motion, which has been supported by other hon. Members; by over-praising corruption rather than noting the way corruption has been corrected. That is what I am doing! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we know that the economy has grown by 6 per cent. We also know that inflation has been going down and not up. We also know that the Kenya Shilling is now one of the best currencies in the world. It is strengthened by the state in which the economy is. Our currency is exchanging at Kshs67 to the US Dollar, as opposed to what used to prevail when one of the hon. Members who has spoken here was a Minister. The rate of exchange was over Kshs80 to the US Dollar, because the Kenya Shilling had been violated. If that is not growth, then what is it? Maybe we have new principles of economics, which we would be prepared to listen to. But in the conventional and traditional way of looking at the economy, every bit of it is in place in this country. Only those who are blind - and I am yet to see an elected hon. Member of Parliament here who is blind - may not see. Even if they cannot see, some of them should \"touch\" the prices of wheat, maize and milk which have prevailed in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks---"
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