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    "id": 702671,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/702671/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mati",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2469,
        "legal_name": "G.J. Munuve Mati",
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    "content": "My constituency has people walking as far as 40 kilometres one way to get water. A borehole will cost about Kshs1million which is what it costs to keep a Member of Parliament here for a month. The 90 new Members of Parliament is equivalent to 90 new boreholes. If you divide that by five, it means about 16 water pans. I have very good friends and I was invited to the dance and dinner. I tried to go, but I did not manage. This matter is not only taking a gender dimension, but also a class dimension. The poor woman in Mwingi North who has to walk 30 kilometres to get water and the poor parent in Mwingi North whose child is going to be kicked out of school because they cannot afford Kshs5,000 school fees in a day secondary school would find this a very bitter pill to swallow. That we are increasing the number of parliamentarians at the expense of her child who may not get secondary education although it costs only Kshs15,000, not per month, but per year. The word “progressive” is not very good. It does not mean much. I wish and pray that we could come up with another Bill that I could support that would decrease the number of current Members of Parliament, so that the 30 per cent becomes a number that can be managed within the current confines of the total number of Members that we have. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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