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    "id": 277750,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/277750/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Constitution also talks about national unity. The President was very firm about the secession by the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC). I thank him for that. He was very firm about illegal groups, but I never heard him talk with the same zeal and strength about the tribal groupings of the GEMA and Kamatusa, which are also a threat to national unity. They are, probably, even a bigger threat because they have more following. The GEMA is a grouping of so many millions of Kenyans – much more that the MRC. It is more of a threat to national unity than the MRC at the Coast. We expect the President to show impartiality in condemning groupings that are not for national unity. That is what we expected. About discrimination, it is true that this Government had done a commendable job in terms of infrastructure development. Many people have spoken about this but as many others have also cited, the development is skewed. One may ask: “We have a beautiful road to Thika, but who prioritised Thika Road?” Why not Mombasa, which is our port? Why not Busia which is accessing the rest of the East African community? Why did it have to go to Thika? Have Kenyans asked themselves those questions? Fine, Thika may also be deserving but what of Busia? What plans do we have for it? What of Mombasa? What programmes do we have for it? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you tell the people of Gwassi that there has been a lot of development in the road sector, they will laugh at you. They will ask you where. My constituency does not have even a metre of tarmac road and you tell me that roads have been developed, they will ask you where have they been developed? You provide Kshs200 million for roads in my constituency in the Budget, but you take it away in the middle of the year because you were not able to absorb it because you did not want to tender quickly. You take the money to the Central Province to pay contractors who have been working there and then you want me---"
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