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    "id": 881883,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/881883/?format=api",
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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": "So, as we pass this Motion, I want to tell Hon. Didmus Barasa something, because he is the one who has already engaged his mind in this thing and I congratulate him for that, many of us do a lot of politicking. I also see him a lot of times doing a lot of politicking at funerals, which is not bad because we are politicians. Since he has come up with a well-thought idea, I want him to engage his mind even further to come up with a Bill that would either mend some of the existing statutes or even come up with a fresh Bill on public transport. That way, we will have an opportunity to debate serious matters that will help us rein in on this sector and actually put in place an organised public transport. There has been the issue of urban train transport. We have talked about it many times and it is the only route which will help Nairobi move towards the state that Dubai and other organised cities are in. That is a transport system that we must seriously think about. With Kenyans still voting for unga instead of voting for brains to manage counties like it is in Nairobi County, we will continue to have problems. Kenyans also need to think seriously. When voting for a governor, you do not wait for unga to be distributed to your doorstep so as to cast your vote and you end up mortgaging your life for five years. If we had a functioning county government, a lot of these issues would have been addressed. Instead, you vote into office people who have no clue, whose only strength was how deep their pockets were and who do not even know how to run a government such that half of the cabinet resigns before the end of the first year. What do you expect when you vote for someone who has no capacity and tomorrow you ask what happened to your governor? Garbage in, garbage out. Sometimes some people wonder why their Member of Parliament does not talk in Parliament. What did you see when you elected him? You elect someone who is not even able to communicate effectively, put him in Parliament and then you expect that later, a miracle will happen the moment the person goes to Parliament, so that he can start articulating your issues. With those remarks, I support the Motion."
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