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    "id": 880537,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/880537/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute on this Report. People might think I am trying to be proud, but I am actually proud in the sense that Eng. Karue, the former Member for Kipipiri, and I, brought the NG-CDF Motion and the NG-CDF Bill to this House. At that time, no lawyer wanted to prepare the Bill for us. We had to hire Gacheru from England because when you were seen to be opposed to President Moi, even if you were a private lawyer, you would not get business in this country. So, they refused to take it. However, fortunately, we passed the Bill. The current Chairman of the NG-CDF Committee was then a Member of Parliament. We passed a Bill, but President Moi did not assent to it. He returned it to us, but we were not able to override his veto. Fortunately, during the discussion of the Bill, the former President Mwai Kibaki, who was the Leader of the Official Opposition, praised us and said: “Why did Kenyans not elect these two young men?” By then, I was a young man, I am still young. I know my age. By then, I was a young man. He said: “Why did Kenyans not elect these young men a long time ago? Kenya would have developed.” However, when we lost and it was not approved…"
}