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    "id": 234306,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. G.G. Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 330,
        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "There is no development which will be sustainable in this country, no matter how much we want to claim that we are developing; no matter how much our Gross National Product (GNP) will be improved, unless we improve the lives of our people, our future is still at stake. The sustainment of any kind of development is when all people develop together without leaving others behind and expect them to become nothing, but just voters. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, our people are becoming more educated. Karl Marx did not decide on communism because he was happy to do that. It is because of the pressure which he had. It is the pressure of poverty. I do not see ourselves getting out of this problem unless we decide to call a spade, a spade, and unless this Parliament decides to take over their responsibility. It seems as if Parliaments in Africa still depend on the Executive, and those are separate entities. We are elected to improve the welfare of our people, and the only place we can do that is in this November 15, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3663 august House. We ask several Questions, we complain and we accuse each other here, but a well learned person sitting on the side will look at us and feel sorry for the parliamentarians, because we tend to shift blame to other people, especially to the Executive. The Executive has its role to play, especially the security of the country, to manage and give direction in economic management, but the laws are made here. We can dissolve this House and we can do whatever we want to do in this Parliament as long as what we are doing is for the good of this nation. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have been accused of not working hard. We have been told that we have only passed four or five Bills. I think the country needs to know that the Bills are the responsibility of the Government---"
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