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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you realise that Prof. Olweny has raised that point of order in order to make his presence felt in this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, last week on Wednesday, we spent the whole day discussing the composition of hon. Members in the House Business Committee. Imagine discussing one item for a whole day in a country where three-quarters of its population is suffering from famine; a country where 72 per cent of our youth are unemployed; a country that has destroyed its environment to the extent that we cannot get rain any more. This is a country where rivers traverse various regions, and yet our people are dying of hunger. It is quite unfortunate that with these kind of problems, hon. Members can dare spend a whole day discussing one item, such as the formation of the House Business Committee. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, recently, I saw a television clip of a young girl of 11 years old in Garissa District whose weight is a mere eight kilogrammes, and that her sister had died of hunger. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to join a delegation of a Committee of this House that toured Egypt. In that delegation, there were two Egyptians who had worked in Kenya. They asked me: \"How can one die of hunger in Garissa District when Tana River just passes by?\" They also added: \"Here in Egypt, we get water from the River Nile, whose source is 5,000 kilometres away at Lake Victoria. From these waters, we feed a population of 75 million people.\""
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