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    "id": 460812,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker. As a Member of the Committee, which has been able to collectively come up with this very comprehensive report, I wish to re-emphasise what hon. Asman Kamama has just mentioned about the French Revolution. When Marie Antoinette saw that the people were revolting, she asked: “Why are the people revolting?” She was told: “Because there is lack of bread.” Due to disconnect between government and the people, she replied: “In the absence of bread, let them have cake.” Hon. Speaker, this is exactly what is going to happen if, as a House, we do not fully adopt this report. As a House, we have been through a lot regarding various issues. If there is one particular instance whereby, as a House, we can collectively be deemed to have done justice to this country, is by adopting this report as it is. While out there, I heard one or two of my colleagues express a different view. I seriously urge each and every Member of this House to go through this report. You will see the intrigues of wicked minded Kenyans, who came together with no shame or guilt or remorse whatsoever in ensuring the “death” of this country. Therefore, it is my hope that we will put everything else aside and put the interests of this country above us all. I once again urge every Member of this House to read this report and support it fully. It is in the interest of justice and in the interest of ensuring that calamities like the one captured in this report do not happen again. There was fabrication on the need to import maize to the extent that, weeks after the maize had been imported, it was announced that there was going to a bumper harvest. This is against the background of having been told that there was going to be a famine in the country. Hon. Speaker, it is, therefore, my hope and the hope of many of my colleagues that this report will be adopted by an overwhelming majority of this House. Thank you."
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