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    "id": 519104,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that invention brings me to a very serious point. We are managing an economy where sound brains are expected to be sycophants. We are running an economy where good brains are being ruined because they are told they must conform. We are running a country where if we are not careful, the income inequalities are going to be very high, and will destroy us. We are running a country where the richest places, where you have billionaires of our Republic, also have people with jiggers. All these complicate control of crime in this country. It must start with Parliament; we are going to condemn crime and support our police force to be able to enforce laws, regardless of who is breaking the law. We are allowing the country to get distorted in relation to crime and we are not addressing it. If this continues, we will be consumed by this vice. I was talking to hon. Abongotum one time. He confessed: “If I am expected to say ‘yes’, hon. Dalmas, what do I say?” The issue of being expected to say ‘yes’ when you have brains to know what is good for Kenya must come to an end. There are people overwhelmed by the expectations of certain interests in the country. We must agree to change this situation. We must agree to change this; we must all agree that we must change it, otherwise we will not benefit from the opportunities that our Republic has got. The problem starts with insecurity, which will not disappear until all of us agree to address it. We must all agree to condemn crime, enhance the right values that will give us a peaceful and prosperous country. I beg to support with all my sympathies the new appointee to this challenging position."
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