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    "id": 818284,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/818284/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Press. The people of Kenya did something very positive in opening up parliamentary proceedings, whether in the plenary or committees, to public scrutiny and public coverage. But that does not give the media the ticket to scandalize Members of Parliament. I am not denying that Members of Parliament have acted sometimes in ways that the public could question. But the media would do justice to this country if they highlighted specific, definite cases where Members of Parliament have either misbehaved or acted in a way that is against the interest of the public. When you resort to condemnation, which is based on rumours and hearsay…. I did not read this newspaper. I stopped picking them because they hit your face with them on traffic lights. They give them to you for free and sometimes you get hit before you know. Someone just read to me some excerpts from what was written, one of which is that out of three Members of Parliament, two have taken a bribe. That is an assessment that I am told that paper has carried out. I do not know where they did this opinion poll or survey. Like now, we are four here, chances are that, at least, two or three of us have actually taken a bribe. I asked myself: How factual is this? Even though there has been talk and rumour about Members of Parliament being compromised, for you to arrive at such a conclusion, it must be based on facts. Otherwise, it should also be understood that Members of Parliament have families and friends. Actually, we have voters who believe in our integrity. How do I go to my constituency to start talking about integrity, even addressing principals or project management committees of the NG-CDF and telling them how they should uphold high standards of integrity, when a newspaper has carried a story that I belong to a House whose 66 per cent of Members are corrupt and, therefore, chances of me being corrupt is higher than not being corrupt? This is really ridiculous. Tie it to what another friend of mine has written in The Standard . Yesterday, it was the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that won a case in court against the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) on whether the sittings of JSC should be restricted to eight in a month."
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