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    "id": 318247,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/318247/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 372,
        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
        "slug": "margaret-wanjiru"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker I join my colleagues in saying that whoever took this matter to the media, claiming that Members of Parliament were bribed with as little as Kshs30,000, whoever it is, it is a real joke. This is an insult to all of us as men and women of integrity and as people, for example, I am a Bishop and when somebody talks about bribing, unless one brings an offering to the church, I would not even accept your money for whatsoever reason. When you bring it to the church, you put it to the offering basket. You do not give it to me in the hands. So, for someone to go out there and claim that they distributed Kshs30,000 to my colleagues is an insult to Members of Parliament and it is unacceptable. However, having said that, the question is; how do we draw the line between whoever said it and the media? Could we be dealing with a rumour or are we dealing with the reality? That much, I do not know. If the hon. Member called a Press Conference and said that, that means that we have evidence. However, if we do not have evidence, we will just treat it as a rumour. The media has a way of repeating something every day. There is an incident where I was cleared of something that an hon. Member of Parliament had said and thereafter, he realized that he was wrong in what he had said about me. He had given the wrong information. So, he struggled with the same media to withdraw what he had said. I know him and this is somebody that I respect. He managed to clear himself and told them what he had said about Bishop Margaret and the truth of the matter. However, up to today, the media still goes back to say what he had said in the beginning and what he said to clear himself later and then form their own story. What happened yesterday is that we cleared Prof. Ndung’u and Mheshimiwa Kimunya. We cleared them. Do we still want to drag their names in the media with the same issues every day? If we do not have evidence of what this Member did, let us ignore the matter. They will talk about it for one day and it will be over. We will remain men and women of integrity and hon. Members of Parliament. However, this particular Member knows that what he did was wrong. If we have evidence, let us pursue the matter. We cleared hon. Kimunya and Prof. Ndung’u. Let the matter rest. Thank you."
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