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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to make a few comments about this speech that fell short of anybody’s expectation, except for a few sycophants. At paragraph 144, the President said this:- “We must always remember that the calling of leadership is to serve, not to become rich through serving.” I hope his deputy was listening to him as he said these words. This is because we have a cabal around the President, which includes members of his family, who are not serving, but are becoming rich through serving. The President made a very good public relations speech. In a public relations speech, you become totally impervious to facts, truth and how your audience receives it. All you do is play like an actor. The President did put on a good act on that day. I could have given him an Oscar Award. However, everything he said apart from addressing the two Speakers and Members of Parliament, were all laced with exaggerations, falsehoods and outright untruths. They were statements that could only make sense to an audience that does not live in this country. You saw an editorial the other day in one of the respected newspapers in this country, The Standard, asking and decrying the number of times the President is churning out false figures. They were asking: Who is misleading the President? You saw the President in Mombasa standing up in public and alleging that the County of Mombasa has received disbursements of Kshs40 billion since devolution. If he even cared to ask Sen. Wamatangi, who is his Senator, he would have told him exactly how much money this House has approved to go to the County of Mombasa. It is Kshs23 billion. Who told the President that Mombasa County had received Kshs40 billion from the National Government? Somebody somewhere is not doing his job. I do not think the President just picks these figures. President Kibaki used to pay a lot of attention to figures, numbers and details. You would never hear him go out and read a speech that is not true. Some people used to underestimate Mzee Kibaki. You would give him a speech. After going through it, he The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
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