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    "id": 315107,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/315107/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj. Sugow",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Public Service",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Ahmed Sugow",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am glad this Bill has come at an opportune moment and actually, it is long overdue. I hope that we will try our best as a country and as a House to ensure that we protect Kenyans from these conmen and women. Today, when you retire and you are 60 years old or 70 years old, the little that you get you decide to invest in these so-called schemes and it goes down the drain. You do not have the strength to do anything and then it becomes just like a death sentence. So, we should go out and ensure that these people are arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment the way one of my colleagues mentioned how it was done in the United States where not only were they sentenced to life imprisonment but even given harsher punishment where possible because indirectly sentencing somebody to life of poverty forever is not a very simple crime. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with that, I believe this Bill should be supported by my colleagues and I am very glad that so far, there has not been any dissenting voice. Although I am not speaking for the Government but I believe that any person who probably will be speaking for that will not oppose this. It is a very noble Bill and I support the effort by the hon. Member who brought this Bill to the House. With that, I support."
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