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    "id": 758579,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Raphael Bitta Sauti Wanjala",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Budalangi Constituency",
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        "legal_name": "Raphael Bitta Sauti Wanjala",
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    "content": "We have come from far and I want them to listen. One Member said it is not about education; it is about wisdom. It is only Hon. Mbarire, among the ladies seated on the other side, whom we were with. She knows where we have come from and the number of women who were in this House and those who are here today, courtesy of the struggle. Therefore, when we are in this House we need to be serious and make laws for posterity. We are not making laws for today’s gain. I have experience. When I came to this House, the person I replaced was a minister called James Charles Nakhwanga. And they made a law here under the Inter-Parties Parliamentary Group (IPPG) that the petitioner shall file and serve the petition within 28 days. They knew they were in power. They were in Kenya African National Union (KANU). They would rig. After winning, they would go to Dubai or wherever and stay there so that they would not be served with that petition. Indeed, I beat him. After winning the election, I went to Dubai. I stayed there for 28 days then came back. Because of the same laws they had made, when we went to court I won that petition. I am telling my brothers and sisters on that side that we have brought this country from very far. It has cost people’s blood."
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