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    "id": 726907,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Muia",
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        "legal_name": "Regina Nthambi Muia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand here to support this Report. I have listened to several speakers contributing to this Report. One thing, we need sober minds when dealing with things concerning the country. Blame game will not take us very far. There are so many people who listen to us when we are contributing to Bills on the Floor of the House. About corruption, it has become like a goldmine in this country. Any person stands somewhere, even those who are corrupt, to talk about corruption. All the time they are talking the Jubilee Government being corrupt. Surely, we have had several governments and we know what has been happening. We have never seen people taken to court. We have never seen people returning things they take from the community. People are using this as a political tool. It depends on where people stand. If they are in the Jubilee Government, then they are so corrupt. We want the corrupt individuals to be named so that they do not tarnish the names of innocent people. Even when we lose money in our offices people out there start shouting that the Jubilee Government is very corrupt. We have the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) money. People are being corrupted in those offices. You hear people say that it is Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto. They do not look at themselves. I want to give an example of what is happening with the doctors. Some departments are supposed to be dealt with by the governors. People are not talking about what the governors are supposed to do. People are just talking about the national Government. If the governors could stand firm and deal with the crisis in the health sector, people could not be talking about the national Government. On matters related to ethnicity, how do I go campaigning out there when people are busy abusing the Government? When something comes to the table ---"
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