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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, talk of the economy. What counts more than Article 1 of our Constitution? We represent the people and their view should be respected. Of course, in this proviso out here there are collective bargaining agreements which have been in force for quite a while, but if you look at the scene--- I have been on it from 2003 and I have seen a Member from the Executive, and may God rest his soul in eternal peace, coming to mismanage the whole thing. The people are left high and dry with no pay. Kenya is good and Kenya will continue to produce flowers, but if we must produce flowers at the expense of killing an average of 100,000 every decade who are workers in those flower farms, that is very sad. If we must produce flowers so that all these people sleep hungry or just take carbohydrates; if we must continue planting trees at a rate of, say, 100,000 and then destroy them at a rate of 200,000 in such a volatile environment because they cannot afford any other source of energy and have to rely on poached firewood and charcoal, then something is flatly wrong. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I could speak for decades. I am not speaking to the gallery but to Members of Parliament who will be amused to learn that we have had an opportunity to see some of these investors that I am talking about dine. They are able to do Kshs4,000 for lunch and I have proof here. I can say where and when if required. If you commit Kshs4,600 for lunch, you big men, and you are paying the workers Kshs3,700 per month--- This is somebody with children. I will not talk about sexual harassment and prostitution in the flower farms because if I was given a chance and if it was admissible, I would table 200 pages of newspaper cuttings over the years by different people all having one common denominator. Parliament must rise to the occasion and save her people. It must represent the people and make laws."
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