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    "id": 255865,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kamanda",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Gender, Sports, Culture and Social Services",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 221,
        "legal_name": "Maina Kamanda",
        "slug": "maina-kamanda"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me a chance to say something about this very important Speech from His Excellency the President. I want to talk about the youth who form 72 per cent of our population. Hon. Members are misusing the youth for their own selfish gains including myself. That is a fact. One or two hon. Members in this House who are not below the age of 30 are inciting the youth so that at the end of the day chaos erupt in this country. When you look around, some of these hon. Members will flee this country once they have set this country on fire. They have passports, big cars and lots of money. We will be judged harshly by Kenyans as a Parliament which set this country on fire. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wonder when I see some faces in this House talking about corruption and even accusing the Government. I am not saying that all of us should not fight corruption. All of us should fight corruption. However, some of the hon. Members on the Opposition side were heads of parastatals in the previous government and they mismanaged those parastatals. We also want the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to pursue PIC and PAC reports so that at the end of the day some Members of Parliament are sacked. If we did that, then Kenyans will believe that Parliament is serious. The KACC should go further and ban such people from vying for any civic or parliamentary seat. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, one or two hon. Members in this House and whose names I do not want to mention are not worth accusing anybody about corruption because of their bad records. They know what crime they have committed. They are pretenders. Let us not be pretenders when we are hon. Members of Parliament. We should be---"
}