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    "id": 54538,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Duale",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Livestock Development",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the leadership and as some Members have said, I am sure that the Members of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information do not know anything about their constituencies. As leaders, we should not bring party and ethnic politics to this House. When we bring a matter of national importance to this House and somebody from the other side whose face you do not want to see because he comes from another region stands up to contribute, you should not lose focus. Kenyans are watching us. They want us to offer a solution tomorrow. The Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister for Finance, in his wisdom, under the law, has done what he did yesterday by reducing Excise Duty on kerosene and diesel by 30 per cent and 20 per cent respectively. Parliament, as a legislative organ, what else can we offer the Government in terms of changing laws and bringing up policies? We want Members to formulate more laws. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, in his wisdom, did what the law offered him. When somebody comes here and says that somebody called the national flag a piece of cloth, that is not the issue that we are discussing today. You are being very parochial, petty and an ethnic chauvinist."
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