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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njenga",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kigo Njenga",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I wonder whether we are looking at the human aspect. Sometimes people who cannot play football kick others outside the pitch. What we should look at are the circumstances in which the Speaker utters whatever he is being accused of uttering. Sometimes there are circumstances in which some of us can do bad things. Looking at the benefits that he has brought to this House, I wonder about human nature. Just the other day, we were pushed to a corner by the Senate; we were so desperate. The Speaker defended us against the Senate and the Cabinet Secretaries. If we can forget that, then we are also people who cannot see the past in an accurate way. Looking at the benefit of the character of the Speaker, it is greater than the risk of using a few words here and there. In fact, what he has been accused of is not substantive. We should be told what he did, and under what circumstances he did it. Looking at the efficiency, effectiveness, timeliness and fearlessness of our Speaker, we would not be doing justice to him by censuring him. So, I urge my brothers in this House to consider the fact that the madness of a community can make a sane man look mad. Therefore, I urge all the hon. Members of this House who know that we are trying to redeem ourselves to oppose this Motion. With those remarks, I beg to oppose."
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