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    "id": 877923,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/877923/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "words “Deputy President,” then the consequences of his actions should be in accordance with law, because he does not enjoy any protection. If the evidence points to any other Kenyan, then the consequences of the law should follow. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point that I was trying to make and, in fact, that is why I do not like when people overreact. There was a time when, in the House you mentioned the word “President,” everybody would be on their feet. I hope that we are not getting back to that kind of situation. The maize saga is question of corruption, and that is what we are dealing with; it is nothing else. If you are going to take the kind of people I have seen being taken to court; farmers who have 20 to 30 acres, and that has happened many times, even during the first Kenyatta Government. If you read the Report on maize, many people were taken to court and Ministers lost jobs. We are here dealing with a question of grand corruption. In fact, if you read this Report, it is strange and fiction. It could not have happened through the connivance of plans of an ordinary being, like the Senator for Nandi. The money that is being made under this maize scandal is beyond your comprehension, Senator for Nandi. I am very sure this money that was supposed to be paid to the maize farmers in the country, but we were paying farmers from Brazil. That was what the whole idea was all about. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that this will not just be another Report; that it will not just be just another ad hoc Committee making a report to the Senate. This Report requires action and should be seen in the context of what is happening in the Republic as whole. I am urging that the President of Republic of Kenya should not be weak-kneed; he should show leadership because he enjoys powers that are only vested on the President of the Republic Kenya. He is the only one who enjoys immunity, and that is for a reason. Therefore, do not hesitate; so, lock up the sharks, but deal in accordance with the law. Lock up the sharks. If the shark is the Deputy President, lock him up! If it is Orengo James, lock me up!"
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