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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not responsible for the ignorance of my colleague. I never said anything about eating rats; that was a creation of the media. I said we should go back to eating our traditional foods. I am surprised that the Hon. Member was in this House and he heard my contribution. Now, I know who first started spreading that rumour; he has just confirmed it and I am going to take the necessary action. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we now have free primary education. We need to commend the KRA for increasing tax revenue from Kshs150 billion to triple that amount. It took the first President, the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, together with the immediate former President, Daniel arap Moi, 40 years to attain a revenue base of Kshs150 billion. It has taken President Kibaki only three years to triple that amount to Kshs450 billion. This is the more reason why we need to give him another five-year term. I am saying we should not just pick on a few Ministries or parastatals to show that there are skewed appointments to public offices. If there is one parastatal that is performing, it is KRA. We are hoping that they will be able to collect even more taxes, so that the Government can start the programme of free secondary education and later on free university education. On the constitution, it has always been the wish of President to give Kenyans a new Constitution. But this wish has always been sabotaged by people who do not want Kenyans to get a new Constitution. When I look at the so-called minimum reforms package, they were all contained in the rejected Draft Constitution. If, as Opposition hon. Members were saying, 80 per cent of that Draft Constitution was good, why do we not re-introduce the so-called Wako Draft, which is 80 per cent good, since all the minimum reforms being talked about are in it? If you look at what they are proposing, for example the requirement that the Presidential candidate must garner 51 per cent to win an election, this is dangerous. If we must accept this, then it must also apply to Members of Parliament and councillors. This means elections will be very expensive because we will have repeat elections. That is a dangerous concept. We have always agreed that a majority is a majority, and what is good for the President is also good for Members of Parliament and councillors. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am again shocked that among the minimum reforms proposed is the 24 seats for women nominated Members of Parliament. In the Wako Draft, we had proposed 70 reserved seats for women. Now, which is better, the Wako Draft or the minimum reforms? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, whenever I hear somebody talking about majimbo, I get scared. There is a country in South America that changed its constitution to provide for"
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