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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "under irrigation that would have been put within two to three years of Jubilee Government. There was a promise that drought will not affect anybody. But the Galana-Kulalu project for example-- - Hon. Duale comes here and tells Kenyans that Heads of State have visited Kenya. He is not telling Kenyans that Mr. Netanyahu came to Kenya, but did not go to the irrigation that is being undertaken by Israelites. But because of corruption, Kenyans are now dying. The Government is telling Kenyans that it is going to Hungary and Europe to look for maize, while we would have been producing 4 million bags of maize as promised by Jubilee Government per year. Where is the maize? Where is the project? Kshs7 billion shillings are gone a few three years later and are in the pockets of a few mandarins. That is the truth. They are rich because Kenyans are dying. For example, the free maternity--- Come on Mr. President, you have to give us a break! Everybody knows that health is a devolved function. I will tell you a personal story. Three weeks ago, the wife of my employee in the village was giving birth and was carrying twins. When she was taken to the Jubilee dispensary in my village, Akalla Health Centre, they said they could not help. They were, therefore, taken to a private hospital where she gave birth. In the circumstance, she gave birth to one live baby but, unfortunately, one could not be saved. That is what the President was claiming as a success. That is what President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta came to the Floor of this House to tell Kenyans that health, in terms of free maternity, is a success. I paid Kshs48,000. What about the people who do not have money? What about it? Kenyans are dying. This thing is chocking. The President came here in March, 2015. He had brought a list here of purported corrupt individuals. My friend Michael Kamau was charged frivolously that he obstructed justice. Anybody who works in the Ministry of Roads, if you really want to nail them, there is so much to nail them on. You do not have to be frivolous with a high ranking civil servant like Michael Kamau or Charity Ngilu - where a charge is called obstruction of justice that cannot sustain the test of any court in the world. I am not a lawyer, but I have common sense. Mr. Muraguri is involved in the theft of Kshs1.6 billion and he is still sitting there as the Permanent Secretary and the containers are in Mombasa. The house he is building in Nyeri, which was in the newspapers the other day, is bigger than the Parliament of the Republic of Kenya and yet, he is a mere civil servant."
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