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    "id": 84277,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Why do you want to continue cleaning toilets in down town Washington while you can be an expert in your own country, earning such a decent salary? Why do we have a policy here with this Government that cannot wake up one morning and get all the lot of people who are educated in agriculture, arid lands, farming and livestock and so forth; go there and negotiate with Somalia people. These people can help in rebuilding that country. They can help in technology. Our tissue culture in bananas, for instance, which is world class, should be able to be exported there. Then they will have huge plantations of bananas and Kenyans will continue to be expatriates. Why are we relying on what somebody else is telling us? You know it and I know it. For you to go to the United States, you need a process of visa arrangement that to say the least, is humiliating. I think the only question they do not ask you is: Who is your mother-in-law, if you are a mature man like me? Otherwise, they would like to know everything else. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am saying this with a lot of reservations. This honourable House has three functions. One is representing the people of Kenya and their views. The people of northern Kenya are people of Kenya. So, this House should represent them with the same vigour and zeal as they would do for those from the Coast, Naivasha or any other place. The second function of this House is to make laws. We all participate in making laws. The final one is that of oversight. Both Committees did a very commendable job. It is the high time we adopted what they have recommended. First and foremost, by not looking at our neighbours as cash cow,so that they have to sell their camels and through corrupt practice, be able to cross our borders. That must come to a halt. That must be controlled. The Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) does not need to wait for the report. They need to get there, so that only those who deserve are able to cross our border."
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