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    "id": 492725,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Kajuju",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Kajuju",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I appreciate the fact that you are saying that this letter was just brought to you for notification. It is not an order. Neither does it require you, as the Speaker of the National Assembly, to go beyond its content. Therefore, we can even afford to treat it with the contempt it deserves. There is what we call the “letter” and “the spirit of the law”. You cannot use the “letter” to destroy “the spirit of the law”. The EACC is supposed to tell us what is unethical about us assisting our constituents. To the extent that they do not do so, their letter does not hold any water. Neither is it worth the paper that it is written on. Hon. Members of this House conduct what we call “corporate social responsibility.” In the course of representing my people, I cannot be told not to help them with the little that I have. They are actually saying that we do not use our salaries to help the people. We use the little that we earn to assist our people out of all manner of problems. As a matter of fact, this coming weekend – on Friday and Saturday – I will be visiting Homa Bay and Migori County because my colleague, the area county representative, has not been to her county since the day she was involved in an accident. She has invited me to accompany her to Migori County and to be with her. If I take a little money out of the salary that I get from Parliament and contribute to a worthy cause, what will be wrong with that? So, the letter should not be taken by this House to be of any legal significance. We should continue to assist our people, as expected of every elected Member of this House."
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