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    "id": 894637,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/894637/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Keynan should stop conversing in a language that I do not understand behind me. On the question of anticipating debate, I am well guided by your direction. However, I was hoping and praying that you would give direct sanctions against some of these media houses. The distortion of facts about the Bill by Hon. Ndindi Nyoro was not only deliberate, but also calculated. It is not an affront on the Member for Kiharu, but on the National Assembly. As much as you have guided that they should offer an apology to the Member for Kiharu and the National Assembly, we were accused in the past that we were working on Bills that did not exist to increase our salaries. It was reported in all the media houses. We featured on prime-time news on news of Bills that are before this House, which did not exist. We have this incident where a Bill that does not exist formed newspaper headlines over the whole weekend. What is more worrying is the trend by the Members of Parliament of taking our politicking to another level where we now join the fray. We, as Members of Parliament, are the ones who encourage the media to kill the dignity of this House. We saw and witnessed Members of this House who were debating the purported Bill in funerals and churches. Some of them were chased out of some churches over the weekend. It is imperative that if we expect dignity from the media and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
}