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    "id": 788307,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "If you go to some part of Nairobi, particularly on Kirinyaga road where our people own spare parts shops, you will find that the goods they are selling, a company in China is selling the same good in the streets at the same or even a lower price than them. So our people are closing business. So, the element of local content is very important. We do not want to turn our country into a place where other people are offloading their excess population. We are only 45 million people. There are countries with a billion plus people. So, they will look for any space on the globe where they can offload their excess baggage. This House therefore, has an obligation to protect the interest of our people through the local content. I am sure that is not hate speech. If it is, I am doing it on the Floor of the House. I am not doing it outside the precincts of Parliament. This is part of the privilege I enjoy. Hon. Mulyungi is waging war, some of it good and some bad. Sometimes if you think you will be told to have made hate speech, look within the Standing Orders whether you can make your statement on the Floor and nobody will hold you accountable. Make sure the Speaker allows you to do it within the contents and the parameters of the Standing Orders. So whatever you say here, if the Speaker agrees with you, nobody can take you to National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) or the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). I am not encouraging Members to make hate speech. I am only telling Hon. Mulyungi because he is very short and vibrant. I pass through his constituency before I go home, so I have no choice. I have to support him because he can block the road to Garissa. Of late, he is picking wars with everybody including the President and the Governor of Kitui. Maybe he wants to inherit Hon. Kalonzo Musyoka’s seat and so, he is preparing himself."
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