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    "id": 639327,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/639327/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "When it comes to money, I plead with my colleagues on the other side of the national Government to refuse to be rubber stamps. It is not politics, but development of our country. Parliament has no duty to defend the Executive. Our duty is to defend the people and the Executive must do what they undertake to do as an Executive. We should stop giving them comfort that we will support them when it comes to revenue allocation, expenditure and corruption. If we support them, we will be cheating ourselves, Kenyans and allowing corruption to continue until so many Kenyans believe that power can be purchased. It is ridiculous that you can purchase power to go and rule the very people who are giving you the power. It is as if there is competition at this time that the money I take from tenders will guarantee my re-election. I will then have to recover that money to a point that our youths are beginning to feel that you do not even need to go to school, that all you need is to make money. These things are beginning from us here. I sympathise with our many youthful leaders who are here because the system is cannibalising. You have little money from a tender or whatever source and then you fight in the constituency and win the seat, but the money you got was enough to win the seat. You do not have enough money to sustain the seat for five years. You end up producing another cannibal from your constituency who gives money from nowhere and knocks you out in the next elections. After five years, we have destroyed a very promising and resourceful national leader before he performs anything in the country."
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