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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "camels do not produce enough milk during the dry season are given milk and sustained until the drought period is over, by those whose camels have enough milk. It has been traditional. There is nothing wrong for Hon. K’Oyoo who, during his days in the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and even now, is endowed with resources, to be my guest of honour if I have a cancer patient in Garissa. In the Bible and the Quran, the hand that gives is blessed thereafter. It is not the hand that is giving but the heart. You can have resources in a very modest way and you can help people. I am sure Hon. Nyenze will tell us. This fundraising appeals and curtailing is suspect. I do not know the intention of Senator (Prof.) Anyang’ Nyong’o, a man I respect a lot. This Bill does not say it curtails public officers and State officers. What about those who are competing with you? Our competitors can do fundraisings and we cannot do the same. This was a very hot issue in the last Parliament when the Bill on campaign financing and Harambees was brought to this House. I really urge my colleagues to send this Bill to Mediation Committee. Let us select a few members to go and re-look at it. If we see a place where we feel Harambees will become an abuse, we put a law. We cannot have a blanket ban and create a law that says there should be no charity. Churches must be built. We were told not to use the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) to build churches, mosques, Islamic and Christian schools. The only way out is for us to play a role in making sure many religions we believe in assist the poor people we represent here in Parliament, especially the sick. How many of us draw cheques every weekend to assist poor parents? How many of us pay air tickets for the sick that are being taken to India? How many of us contribute something to a church or a mosque that will help the poor to go and pray to their Almighty God? I come from a background where I was brought up and taught that I must share whatever the Almighty God has given me with the less fortunate and the community. My resources are communal. The wealth I have belong to the Kenyan Community. From my heart, I am under obligation to help. I even go with my colleagues to contribute to church functions. My colleagues help me build mosques. I have gone to many churches and given contributions. Many of my Christian colleagues have come to Garissa. The last time I had a Harambee to build a mosque, I had over 45 Members of Parliament, and 40 of them were Christians. From that point of view, let us oppose this Bill. Let us form a Mediation Committee, let the leadership be consulted and let us see what is good and what is bad. That is what Hon. Mwadeghu, the Minority Whip, has said. I beg to oppose."
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