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    "id": 700686,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I belong to this Committee and I do sympathize with my Vice-Chairperson. This is the most incompetent answer that we have ever received on the Floor of this House. What we are being told is that the Government is unable to keep records, identify its own people and manage them. The statement discloses that the Government went to Uganda to ask them to come, but it is not prepared to settle them. Could the Vice-Chairperson tell us how many of these people at the gate are from each of the areas of the country enumerated on page three. It is unlikely that some people from Western or Eldoret would come all the way to Nairobi to camp at the gate of Parliament. Sen. Wako can bear me witness on this. All those confusing statements notwithstanding, what is the Government doing to get these people out of the gate of Parliament and settle them somewhere even as we struggle to identify who they are, where they came from, how they will be settled and whether they are passing off for further payment when they had already been paid. That is not out of the Government’s reach. Instead, we are being told that people came at the gate of Parliament and they insist on staying there until their issues are addressed. What kind of Government will this be? Could the Vice-Chairperson tell us when these Kenyans will be taken to a decent place other than the shame of sleeping on the road at the gate of Parliament, not to mention the plight of children and women? There was even a case where a woman delivered a baby at the gate of Parliament."
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