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    "id": 433614,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to support this Motion. I just want to say a few things. I agree with the Leader of Majority Party that, truly, this is the time that we need to reflect on the future of this country, look at it critically and even build the bond even at times when we have differences. We had differences when we were passing the National Police Service Bill, but we can still forge ahead as colleagues. Hon. Mbadi should visit the constituency of hon. Waweru. I am going to do so very soon. I also invite him to Suba. That way, people will know that we have a place where we can converge. I also want to echo what hon. Kangogo has said. I think we need to talk to the Chair of the CDF Committee. That Committee is not doing a good job as it should. We have just two months left to the end of the financial year and most constituencies have not received, if not all, half of the CDF funds. Therefore, this is not only slowing down development in the constituencies, but it is also slowing economic growth. That is because the economic growth of a country is pegged on expenditure and the more you keep money without spending, the more you affect the economy adversely. I want to conclude my contribution by thanking those Members of the Jubilee Coalition - the few Members I know - who stood firm in the Parliamentary Group of Jubilee to say no to Anglo-fleecing. I know the majority had the appetite of paying that money. Maybe, some people had already budgeted on how to take advantage of that money. But I am happy there are some who did not think about themselves as members of Jubilee and, therefore, supported any legislation. They went to that PG and corrected the mess that we would have corrected on the Floor of this House as CORD. As CORD, we were united. But we thank Jubilee for being divided. The tyranny of numbers failed. That led to the withdrawal of the Motion. I thank God for working in your brains to make sure that, that very bad Motion, which would have ended up making us lose the taxpayers’ money, was reversed. I hope that this is not a tactical retreat. I hope that the Government is serious and the Jubilee Members of Parliament---"
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