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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barchilei",
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        "legal_name": "Edwin Kipruto Barchilei",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate my colleagues for standing firm at this time and ensuring that the Government is supported. In my maiden speech I said that the laptop programme is very important. This is because we have planned to make this country industrial in the near future. There is no way we can achieve that without making a sacrifice. Technology is very important to achieving this end. You cannot claim to be supporting the teachers while at the same time you are against the Government. I know my responsibilities as a Member of the National Assembly. I need to support this Government in order to support the teachers. This is because there is no other Government that will pay the teachers. We do not have two Governments. We only have one Government. We cannot use the issue of teachers with an intention of failing the Government so that it appears that Kenyans did wrong to elect the current Government. Let us understand that anything that you do against the Government as a Member of Parliament you are also doing it against your people who elected you. This House has a very powerful role of representing the people of Kenya. It is now very clear that the intention was not the issue of teachers. If that was the case then where are those hon. Members who were for the idea? I would like to support and urge my colleagues that we do support this Government so that it delivers to the people who elected us. I support my people by supporting the Government."
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