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    "id": 484201,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose the report of this committee in its conclusion. I would like to share a word of caution that I have given myself, namely, that we should not lose the fact that the deputy governors, in all our 47 counties, have no jobs prescribed to them. The governor might very well visit injustice to the deputy governor. I have also cautioned myself that if we do not navigate this case very well, and treat it casually, we should not be surprised, in the hot politics of Kenya, if in the fullness of time, the same frivolous and vexatious accusations can visit the Deputy President of Kenya and you find he has also lost his job. I want to thank Sen. Kagwe. He is going to turn on only the issue of hate speech. I would have expected that the Chairperson would lead the Committee in bringing to this House evidence to support that particular conclusion. I have gone through the file and here is the evidence. The first one is a photocopy of Short Message Services (SMSs) messages purportedly from Safaricom. I want this House to find that this is not evidence. It is not admissible by the standard evidence and parliament for the reason that this evidence preferably should have been authenticated at the very least, but at the best, should have been introduced by Safaricom itself. There is nothing that could have stopped somebody from taking a photocopy in the Governor’s office in Machakos and purporting that this is"
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