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    "id": 646101,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/646101/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) G.G Kariuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I have been trying from the time I came here to see if I will get a chance to contribute on this Motion. I was not convinced from the Committee Stage to this stage that we are doing the best we could as Kenyans to distribute the little money that we are given by the system. It is difficult to share that money. Members of the Senate should consider the Senate as a small county assembly which has been asked to share the money. It is a difficult exercise. There is nowhere where the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich sit down and compromise over something which some people think they have gotten more than the others. Philosophically, there is no rich person who has not been made rich by the poor people. It is the poor who make us who we are. In fact, it is something that we should start thinking about. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have been talking about governors and how they behave. We have also talked about the accountability yet this is not what this Motion is all about. This is not what is being asked here. Are we starting a different thing from what our tradition is? If we want the status quo to remain, then, let us all agree that our country will be nursed and protected as a capitalist nation and nothing more. You cannot apply capitalism and socialism together or try to find out the balance unless the systems which have been there are totally forgotten, it does not work. Officers serving in the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and also The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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