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    "id": 841566,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "The other important thing is that it must be able to levy taxes. We say that Kenya is sovereign because it has that ability. We have our judicial system which we must protect jealously, because that is the only recourse that the very members of society, who will be aggrieved by the law that we pass or the excesses of the Executive, can run to for remedy. As the people who the public has ceded sovereign power to, we must behave responsibly because our Constitution states that since that sovereign power has been ceded to us for the greater good of the public, the public purse is controlled by Parliament. Parliament passes the Finance Bill, which proposes the tax measures that the Government must take. Parliament approves all taxation in the country. When Members of Parliament speak, it is the people of Kenya speaking. We must, therefore, ask ourselves why one or two people cannot listen to the call of the people of Kenya. If what is happening now is not checked, it will go to unmanageable levels. Dictatorship starts when you do not want to sit and reason with people; you must always force things to happen. I belong to the Jubilee Coalition and was shocked today to find the Secretary General of the party whipping Members of the National Assembly to go and vote. That was not the only Motion, Government Bill or business that has been to the Senate or the National Assembly. Why is it that now, one must come to intimidate Members of Parliament (MPs)? It is not right. It is not proper."
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