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    "id": 756376,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwangi Paul Githiomi",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator for Nyandarua County",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Githiomi Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me to congratulate you for having been elected Speaker of the Senate. Let me also congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki for having been elected the Deputy Speaker of this House. I want to congratulate the Membership of this House for having fought very hard to be elected to this Senate. I support this Motion because counties cannot work without funds. While I support this Motion, I come from a county in central Kenya that has been marginalised for a long time. Whenever we apportion funds to counties, it is my request that we apportion a little more funds to Nyandarua County so that the county can develop to the level of other counties. I am surprised that we are debating this Motion without the members of the minority side. I challenge them not to come to this House for the next two weeks, so that they can lose their seats as Members of Parliament. Their refusal to come to this House today or making technical appearances does not solve any problem. We need to take this country seriously. We went for an election, it was done and Uhuru Kenyatta was elected by a majority vote of over 1.4 million. The election was later nullified. Such actions can bring war to this country. We do not want to go to war in this country. We have children that would like to enjoy peace in this country. There are many people who can be presidents of this country. We do not have to stick to one who says that: “I must be the president.” One who wants to be President by force. He should be told that whenever there is an election, the winner takes it all in this country. Trying to get nusu mkate is not going to help this country. When he got nusumkate ---"
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