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    "id": 484046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " I salute you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will invite my brother and very great friend, to pass by the nearest bookshop and buy a book called “The Trouble with Nigeria” by Chinua Achebe and read it very carefully. Chinua Achebe says that recently he heard President Shehu Shagari saying that corruption in Nigeria has not yet reached alarming proportions. He goes ahead to say that anybody who makes a statement of that nature is either a fool, a crook or does not live in Nigeria. He went on to say: “I know that President Shagari very well; he is not a fool. I also know that he is not a crook. The only conclusion that I can draw is that even if he is our President, he does not live in Nigeria.” That is the book that is a-must-read for many of us. Mr. Speaker, Sir, paragraphs 280, 281 and 282 run through allegations that the Deputy Governor made utterances that were derogatory to non-Kambas, non-Machakos Kambas and so on. Then, they go on to conclude that they found it substantiated and it is hate speech. First, the Committee has no capacity to conclude that it was hate speech, unless it is has gone through a trial. Secondly, I it is not an ethnically-laced speech, even if the Deputy Governor was talking about non-Kambas and Kambas who do not come from Machakos. Lest we forget, apart from professional cadre, the purpose of devolution is to strengthen, build capacity and help residents of each county, to the extent that it will be unjust to go and pick a Wanyonyi in Bungoma and employ him to clear the Governor’s office in Turkana. This is because a Wanyonyi in Bungoma can be employed to clean the Governor’s office in Bungoma. That is why ugatuzi came to help people. Where you have doctors and engineers, they can work anywhere. What this man is saying, which is not hate speech, is: “Tafadhali, haya mambo hayasaidii watu wetu.”"
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