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    "id": 511394,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/511394/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. First, I rise to express thanks to hon. Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and Members of the Speaker’s Panel. I also thank the people of Nambale and wish to express their hopes and aspirations. They just launched a strategic plan the other day. We are critically depending on funding from the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). I hope the promise that I will get 50 per cent by Christmas will bear fruit. Thereafter, it should be predictable so that we can carefully plan how to spend our funds. Secondly, Kenya is at war whether we like it or not. We have troops in Somalia. We have Al-Shabaab and cattle rustling which is now commercial rustling all over the place. Kenya is at war. Clearly, we need to tighten our belts from the point of view of the law and also from the point of view of accountability. As we tighten the laws, indeed, we must also seek to increase accountability. Of course, it is going to be a challenge to tighten the laws and in the process lose some civil liberties. I would be happier if I see some clauses that are very tight but are time bound. They would expire after some time or after certain conditions are met. However, we must do something about that because everybody knows that security has been a major challenge. I wish everybody a merry Christmas. Thank you."
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