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    "id": 345594,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking at the candidate, Ms. Lydia Nzomo, you need to go through the history of personalities in Kenya to disqualify her. She has merit in her own way. She is a performer. This dragon called the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission that has kept hon. Mututho himself as a suspect in court without ever taking him to court, cannot be a yardstick to making people miss positions that they have earned equitably. The power of a woman is now being felt in schools and students are now over 50 per cent. So, even without asking for any favours, over a very short time, within about ten years, these ladies are going to take over anyway. As long as you are taking a lot of beer for breakfast and avoiding Mututho laws and what you are supposed to be doing rightly, this will not work. It is not proper for people to keep on looking at regional balancing. I come from a place called Nakuru in the Republic of Kenya and I want to say, maybe for the last time in this Parliament, that from 1963 when they appointed one friend of the late Mr. Oginga Odinga as a Cabinet Minister, who was ably sacked by the father of my boss, namely Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in public, nobody has ever been appointed as a Cabinet Minister in Nakuru. Right now, we have registered about 700,000 voters, but I can tell you and I can swear with my shoe that nobody from Nakuru will ever be appointed to any substantive post or position because of this balancing thing. So, those who qualify by merit like hon. Mututho who got the Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear (EBS), not those who get it by chance, should be"
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