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    "id": 461962,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I want to thank hon. Jamleck Kamau for coming up with this Motion which is long overdue. It is unfortunate that a lot of us in public life live life of a lie. There is so much poverty in the country and we want to live with our heads buried in the sand as if we were ostriches and pretend that all is well. My own belief is that we must lend a lot of humility to the positions of privilege that we hold because in truth we hold these positions in trust and on behalf of the people of Kenya. Some of the transformations that we see in our country are startling, I know of some friends – no offence meant – who used to be in the civil society who were really struggling and they even had difficulty in raising bus fare. However, when fortune beckoned and they found themselves in the constitutional commissions, these days, some of them their beards have become so shiny such that they look like they are being dusted every morning. Besides that, every time I go to Kisumu I see them perched in the Business Class while yours truly who has raised his own fare is sitting somewhere at the back. The question we must ask is this: If only last year you had no difficulty using public transport, what has happened to make it impossible for you or discomforting for you that you can only travel in the Business Class?"
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