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    "id": 732388,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Oyoo was not hearing, but now he can hear. Since 2013, 1,532 major companies and multinationals from across the globe have set up shop here in Kenya; from Volkswagen (VW) to Wrigley Company in Thika. They have invested more than Kshs6 billion in Machakos and are set to open up others. Others are General Electric and GZI Industries, and they have invested Kshs12 billion in aluminium can manufacturing plant at Sultan Hamud. Those can be compared to only 40 companies before President Uhuru Kenyatta came into power. There has been renewed war on corruption since the Jubilee Administration took over. There has been a better legal framework. This House has passed laws like the Bribery Act. It has allocated more resources to institutions that deal with graft and the multiagency approach that was introduced by this Government. Let me come to the rationalization of the wage bill. I ask Members of Parliament not to panic. The only panic that you should have now is whether you will be re-elected. You should not panic about the draft report of Sarah Serem because it will be discussed in the next Parliament. So, for now, your allowances and salaries are secured. For now, I assure you that until 7th August 2017 at midnight, when your term comes to an end, your allowances and salaries are secured. So, you should only focus on how to win the next party nominations with your salary, if at all you have any. I wish you well. There are great leaders like Hon. Jakoyo who will do his nominations on 5th August 2017. I want to tell the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Election Board: ―You can rig out anybody else, but not the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party and Hon. Kaluma.‖ I will go to court. These are great minds and this House needs them. You might not like Hon. Jakoyo, but this House needs great minds. There were great minds in the last Parliament which we lost. Like Hon. Martha Karua, the late Senator Mutula Kilonzo and Senator James Orengo. I do not know why he decided to go to that House where three quarters of the year they are on recess; others are Senator Anyang‘-Nyong‘o and Senator Moses Wetangula. Those are great minds and great debaters. Therefore, ODM Elections Board, we are watching what you will do in Gem and Homa Bay Town constituencies."
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