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    "id": 670144,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "The Police Department should use the Traffic Act. You cannot put roadblocks without them being gazetted. At the very least, why have they not gazetted even in the ordinary newspapers the roads that are going to be closed? It is so hard to get here. Who is going to pay for the economic effect for the days the Israel Prime Minister is here? As a Parliament, we cannot be so insensitive. I admit and agree that it is good to do business, but it is insensitive of this Government that on the eve of the end of Ramadhan, on Idd, we are that island that is targeted because of these Israelis and Americans for faults which are not our own. As a Government, we are taking the risk of looking so bad to our neighbours and they will not be here to help us. This thing is so annoying that I thought that the Committee in charge of security and Parliament should tell the Executive that what is going on in our country is not good. You cannot close our roads. At the very least, use the FM stations and tell us that because the Israel Prime Minister is here, we should not use Waiyaki Way. You drive and get to police roadblock and when you try to engage those policemen, they tell you that they do not know which road is open. That is not nice. Common sense would have told the State that if Netanyahu had slept in Safari Park Hotel, business in our country would be usual or if he had slept at Hemmingway in Karen, why can we not do something with common sense as a country? Nobody is there to answer us. The feeling of insubordination by another country is one we should not be meting out on Kenyans. We cannot force our nation to live insubordinately to one man who will come and go. The planners of his trip say that he goes to our regional neighbours and comes back to sleep in Nairobi and all day, the roads are closed. Kenya is no lodging for a foreign President to sleep. He could sleep at Hemmingway, for Christ’s sake, and let businesses go on. I do not take it too kindly as a Member of Parliament."
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