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    "id": 864975,
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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": "My final comment, because I know my colleagues also want to contribute, is that what some of us speak are personal opinions. We give personal opinions but, please, analyse the Bill based on its contents. I know my friends in the media might think I am being very unfriendly and unkind to them. However, the truth is this: Sometimes I wonder if we have professional journalists covering Parliament. What one needs to do is just to read the Bill. In the 10th Parliament, the media used to analyse Bills. Journalists could run to our offices to seek clarifications about contents of Bills. With regard to budgetary matters, they used to come to my office to ask me whatever they had not understood. That way, whenever they put such matters in their weekend analysis, they were sure of the content because it was well researched and well thought out. You could read the analyses and see facts. Nowadays, we read rumours, propaganda and sensationalised stories about “House of Greed”. They even get facts wrong, for example, concerning the mortgage scheme. They say that besides the Kshs20 million mortgage, MPs now want houses rented for them and on top of it get house allowances as well. How on earth would you get a house allowance and a house rented for you? They have been saying that we want Government vehicles. I think those were just comments coming from us. That if you feel an MP should not get mileage, then why do you not provide facilitation for them to reach their respective constituencies? This is because judges, who basically work from their work stations the whole day, are facilitated and given vehicles to do their work. An MP who should on every weekend, ordinarily, visit his or her constituency to get opinions…Women representatives who are supposed to move around constituencies in a county have no vehicles and yet when we ask for mileage, we are considered to be asking for too much. How do you want these MPs to deliver? The people of Kenya decided under Article 127 of the Constitution to create a Commission that will facilitate Hon. Members to perform their duties. How do you facilitate Members without offering facilities? So, when you ask for facilities you become a “House of Greed”. Kenyans should be fair to Parliament and discuss the amounts but not engage in general discussions that we are overpaid. They have been using very unkind words."
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