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    "id": 58893,
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    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "Where did your friends who sympathize with you now vote? I am saying that every Kenyan whether a friend or not deserves justice. We have Kenyans renditioned to Uganda illegally. I have not heard of any legal defence fund for them and we are waiting to be given answers in this House. We have suspects of criminal cases in their thousands languishing in our prisons and we have not even started a national legal aid fund to help them, but for the rich, we now can start talking about fund-raising. This is abuse of power. It is impunity and I want to caution that we should not use a penny on that illegal venture. Let everybody do their own business and stand for themselves. If they need fund-raising, they should call their relatives and friends to fund-raise for them which is the usual thing that happens in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the Economic Stimulus Programme, it is sad that Kshs5.8 billion had been withdrawn and now it has been returned. I want to suggest to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance that instead of withdrawing the Economic Stimulus Programme money even where it has not been spent on time, can we not have a mechanism of rolling it over to the next financial year? I am very glad to say that in Kirinyaga East, all the projects under the Economic Stimulus Programme are somewhere towards 95 per cent complete. So, we will be among the first ones completing and waiting to be equipped. We hope that now that the money is available, we will move quickly to equip them so that people can access the goodness of these projects. I will not be as optimistic as my brother-in-law, Prof. Ongeri that people are already benefitting because they are not benefitting yet since the projects are not complete. We are hopeful that we will benefit. However, I want to stand here and declare that the two primary schools that were being upgraded under this programme in my constituency are complete. So, it may be true that, at least, some benefits have begun to trickle down. Indeed, this is a very worthy project that should go on, and for which we commend the Ministry and the Government. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, other than those reservations it is necessary that we pass this money with the caution that the Government must follow the law, follow the Constitution, be guided by public good and not by the whims of a club of the rich, or a club of powerful and influenced peddlers. With those very many remarks, I beg to support subject to those reservations."
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