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    "id": 491925,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, since I know many of you have gone to good schools, both locally and internationally, the word “heeeee” obtains more or less, in all the languages of the world. With all due respect to MCAs, they should know that they are in the beginning of a great journey that will one day culminate in the ultimate price. If they might have known, MCAs of the Republic of Kenya should know that even President Obama started humbly like them. President Obama served in Illinois for a full term of four years. After he finished in Illinois he went to the Senate and subsequently became the most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States of America (USA). Therefore, the MCAs have reason to wait, grow and become the same story that is the Obama moment in this world. I am saying this because it is with a lot of pain that I remember that Ronald Ngala and Martin Shikuku, speaking on the Floor of this very House, led the leadership of this country in Lancaster demanding that there be devolution. Today Ronald Ngala and Martin Shikuku are dead. I do not know whether when they were thinking about devolution, they wanted these kind of things that we are seeing taking place or it is the expanded resources that are at the disposal of these officers in counties that has gone into their heads. The people who lost their lives lost their profession and broke limbs in the second liberation, notably, Jaromogi Oginga Odinga, Charles Rubia, Martin Shikuku, James Orengo and Kenneth Matiba, when they put their lives, professions and health on the line, it is because they wanted our people to be empowered. Today I want to speak to the hearts of these MCAs. The culture of lawlessness, disorder, chaos, mayhem and pandemonium that we are seeing could not possibly be the meaning of devolution. This culture is steadily taking root in our country in almost all the counties."
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