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    "id": 252439,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/252439/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will bow to your plea. I will make my last point. A gentleman will always respect others' pleas. So, I will, in a gentlemanly fashion, accept your plea and conclude. I would urge the other side of the House to stop this talk about pro poor policies. Pro poor policies are very discriminatory and condescending. Our mission, as a Government, is to eradicate poverty and not to put the poor in a corner somewhere and deplore them. When you begin being pro poor then you end up dishing out small amounts of money here and there for projects that 642 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 25, 2006 will benefit the poor. Since there is a policy of being pro poor, you will find that money allocated to projects that would eradicate poverty has been reduced. I would argue that we adopt an anti- poverty rather than a pro poor policy, because an anti-poverty philosophy will lead us to voting large sums of money to poverty eradication projects including the CDF. With those few remarks, I beg to oppose."
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