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    "id": 373817,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wario",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ali Wario",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. May I take this opportunity to thank all the hon. Members who have contributed in support of this Motion and apologise to some of my colleagues who had asked me to donate part of my time to them. The time is not enough. I sincerely apologise. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the flood menace is not a Tana River specific problem. It is unique in Tana River because of the population of the river-dependent communities. Those people, whose lives and livelihoods are destroyed year in, year out, have nowhere to turn to. We have the fishing folk, the small-scale farmers and the pastoralists, all of whom depend entirely on River Tana for their livelihoods. We are not sadists to just sit down and watch as innocent Kenyans suffer year in, year out. This House must come up with mechanisms of mitigating this problem. We must raise the red flag at those capitalist institutions controlled by the bourgeoisie, who keep on destroying the lives of our people. The time when the Legislature would keep on begging is long gone. We are now in a new constitutional dispensation. This House has teeth to bite. It is time we raised the red flag at TARDA and KenGen and hold them responsible for their actions. The two public institutions must be forced to put mechanisms in place to compensate the lives and livelihoods that they affect every year. May I also take this opportunity to specifically thank hon. Chepkonga for adding value to the Motion. The amendment he introduced has really added value to the Motion. With those few lines, I beg to move."
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