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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "captures and brings a debate, you ordinarily expect these leaders to speak because they are concerned about the welfare and the progress of this country. I want to confess that I have shared this with my party leader and he has told me that this debate has come at a very wrong time. It is a wrong time because we have just been fighting over the issues of the cost of living and the runaway debts in this country. I just remembered the other day that we had to accept the Presidents memorandum on the Finance Bill which was increasing the VAT on fuel because of the hard times we are living in. That is why you will find these leaders commenting the way they did. I do not think that they are to blame. In my view, we need to blame two people. The first ones are those who were distorting the facts of the Bill. Looking at this Bill, there is nowhere this Bills provides or suggests any salary increment. If there is anyone who has spotted this kind of provision in the Bill, he should alert me so that I am aware, and we can educate each other. The media may have decided to bring this as a debate because of the committee reports. There are some provisions in the committee reports that have observed how Members of Parliament need to address their issues concerning welfare. That committee report can only find its way to the Bill through amendments at the Committee of the whole House which is constitutionally provided for, that the Bill has to go through all the three stages. Trying to talk about Members of Parliament increasing their salaries and allowances… I have been given a house allowance in public discussion in that Bill yet I have not seen it. We have also been given a lot of perks which I have not personally seen. I want to blame the House. As the Leader of the Majority Party has put it, our communication department is failing this Parliament. If there is distortion of facts, it is important that we make those facts known. Why would we pay staff working in the department of communication if they cannot communicate on behalf of Parliament?"
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