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    "id": 461728,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kimaru",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Mutahi Kimaru",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Bill. Going by our historical background, many people have come to Parliament, whose ability I cannot undermine to represent the people, but whenever they went into the campaign field, those who had more money had an advantage over those who did not have much money. I have had to postpone my political ambitions time and again because each time elections were held, I thought I could put my best foot forward, but most of the time, I did not have enough money to go through the campaigns. In the last election, when I said I was going to run for an election position, my great aunt, an old lady of over 100 years, Eloise Wamuyu Githae, asked me whether I could speak before people. The other very pregnant question was: “Do you have money to go through the campaigns?” I may not have been endowed as many others, but I still made it probably by the grace of God and fate, as we would have it. In the past, people have invested very heavily in elections. After investing heavily, when they got to Parliament, they would have the opportunity to get to the Government and the first thing that they would do is to recoup whatever money they had used in the elections. They would use a lot of money in harambees, give hand outs to people and then the moment they got back into the Government, they would look for ways of recouping. Through harambees and handouts, you will all agree with me that this nation did not move forward. I do not know whether it would be a paradox to write thesis one day on how harambees underdeveloped Kenya. Maybe when I go back to school, I will think of doing such a thesis. We have seen that in times when we have had the CDF, the amount of develoment that has been there cannot be compared at all with all that the"
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