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    "id": 802850,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Statement. It is obvious – and most of us will not say it – that this is yet another corrupt deal. It is not possible that these buses are better than the ones that are assembled in Kenya. It is not possible that we are going to save money; somebody has already cut a deal. They are most likely old buses that have been renovated so that somebody can make a cut out of it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what worries me sometimes when I listen to Government policies is the use of public funds. We say that we are broke; that counties should not be given more funds and that we should slash our budgets, yet we are importing buses. All our school children are using buses which have been assembled locally; all the Public Service Vehicles (PSV) or matatus have been assembled locally. Somebody somewhere is doing something wrong deliberately. Unfortunately, we are going to say so much, but very little is going to be done to stop this wanton misuse of public resources by people who, instead of buying Kenya and building Kenya, are building other countries. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are importing salt, sugar, pencils, toothpicks, rubber and matchboxes. We are soon going to import soup. Fish, eggs and honey are being imported from China and the only thing that we have not imported is air. We must stop because there is something wrong with this country. The reason I was disappointed about the national prayers held recently is that people did not repent; they just prayed and forgot to repent their sins about misusing public resources. So, when you convene the next prayer breakfast, please make sure that people kneel down and are told their sins or the demons are cast from them because this is demonic."
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