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    "id": 257052,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/257052/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the recommendations of the Committee. Before I do that, hon. Members have remind me to mention two Parliaments, namely Kenya’s Ninth Parliament and the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa. In the Ninth Parliament, the matter that I am about to speak to was a subject in the House. I was a sitting Member of Parliament then. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Republic of South Africa, the challenge of apartheid went before Parliament and Parliament failed to rise against that challenge. This is when Steve Biko was reported killed in prison and some Members of Parliament said that he had died of starvation, yet there was no lack of food in South Africa. Today, the challenge before us is the fight against corruption, and we are about to make the most important decision that will enable this country to have every year a minimum of Kshs280 billion for development that is normally lost through corruption. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Ninth Parliament – and this is in the HANSARD – a Member of Parliament brought up an issue that has now finally caught up with the proposed Chairman of this Commission. This was none other than hon. Julius Arunga. He said in the House that there were some companies in this country that were being aided in non-payment of Income Tax. Hon. Arunga was challenged and upon being challenged, he mentioned some of those companies. I wish to table the document."
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