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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you. She has already clarified. She is a very good Speaker. Let me stand to contribute to the President‘s Speech. How I wish the Leader of the Majority Party was sitting across me, because some of these people do not believe in some of the things that they say! It is a pity that Hon. Duale is repeating the same lies as read on the Floor of this House six days ago. In my native language, they say: ―A rat always bites you, but it blows air to soothe you.‖ So, he was soothing Hon. Kaluma that he is talking for him. But he knows when he opens his mouth, Hon. Kaluma‘s votes may dissipate. Hon. Kaluma, when you get a chance, tell Hon. Duale you do not need his blessings to become the good Member of Parliament for Homa Bay Town that you are. What a sad Speech that the President gave to this country. It was a Speech that inspired no confidence in our people. Four years later, the President should be coming here to inspire this country, especially at a time when there is extreme famine and drought. He did not mention that. He did not talk about the dying people in Baringo. The President did not mention the word ―Baringo‖. Instead, he said that the system will deal with Members of Parliament as if they are cattle rustlers. He controls the security apparatus and organs; then he comes here and asks Parliament to stand for a one-minute silence for soldiers who lost their lives fighting for this country in Somalia. The day those people died, he was dancing in State House. That was the news. He never even sent condolences. Why did he need us to help him send condolences? The day he was here on Wednesday, the Tuesday before that, 15 Kenyans were killed in Baringo. The President did not allude to it. That is what we call in my native language a man with hard eyes. He does not blink when he says bad or annoying things. The President conspicuously, for the first time in four years, did not claim credit for laptops, which he now calls gadgets everywhere. It is like toys. Kshs34 billion later, nothing that resembles toys is owned or possessed by our young people. He conveniently did not touch it because he knows Jubilee lied to Kenyans and it was creating an avenue to steal using laptops. Hon Temporary Deputy Speaker, even Malaysia or where the laptops were purportedly being imported from, does not manufacture computers. He knows he is wrong. They know that it was set-up for theft and it succeeded. Our children have no computers. At this time, there is drought against the background of an extreme promise, a well taunted promise of 1 million acres 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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