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    "id": 732473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "God really loves this country. If, after all the problems we are getting like corruption and everything else, we are still surviving, it is only through God‘s grace that we have survived, but we must speak out. That is why devolution is there. Even Caesar, as a good leader he was brought down by the people around him. I sometime feel for the President because he is a good man. For those who have met and known him, he is a good man. Unfortunately, he is misinformed. He is taken hostage by some people who are using the institution and the person of the President for their own gain. That is important to say. I think His Excellency has given the speech which he was told to give. When I was looking at him, I do not think he was convinced that what he was saying was actually true. I will not say that he was lying but I will say that he was probably wondering whether some of the stuff that he said had actual bearing. I spoke to His Excellency four years ago with the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology, who is now the CS for Lands. I told him: ―This one laptop per child programme that you have has worked very well in Rwanda and other places. Why do we not listen to what they have and learn from them?‖ He asked the CS to look into this. Nothing happened. They went round and round, down and up and now we have ended up with these so called gadgets. I wish you see them, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have one school called ―Okok Primary School‖. They sent us those things. They are basically smartphones. Be that as it is, Kisumu is based on the railway and our life is based on the railway. My grandfather came here to work on the railway. We were very pleased that we were going to have a fast electric train coming from Mombasa to Kisumu through Nairobi. What we are seeing is not even electric. Even the track is not electric. We were told at the last minute that we are getting diesel trains. I think again it is the Executive that has misled him to a situation where he cannot do anything else. In the Luo language, we have something called o ng’ongruok . Ong’ongruok is a chameleon. It is an animal that changes colour to suit the environment. I am afraid that the current Executive is giving him false information. There are issues of the Eurobond, the borrowing of trillions of shillings and corruption. I know that he hates corruption. There are tears in his eyes when he talks about corruption, but his own people have held him hostage. As we speak now, Waiguru will stand for governorship. As we speak now, some of those people who have taken millions and millions of shillings are not taken to court to be charged. As I speak now, some people who were just like, as I said, Kamau, were taken out for a small issue. I feel that this is not right. God loves this country and we urge the President to get rid of those people who are misleading him. You cannot bring lies to this Parliament. Even if you do not believe them, do not bring those things here because you are the President and the institution. We respect you, but, please, do not allow those people to give you a speech which you are not in agreement with."
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