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    "id": 915649,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/915649/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "A Member of Parliament has three roles according to the Constitution. That is legislation, oversight and representation. You can represent your people in funerals and you can oversee even in your house or other oversights like Hon. Millie Odhiambo alluded to at one time. But legislation can only happen in this House. Ninety per cent of the work we do here is legislation, including the money the Member is using outside there like the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). It must be legislated and voted for here in the form of the Budget and the vote heads in the Committees. If we do not stop evil, it is going to be the norm. Everybody will think that they can attack Parliament at any time as they wish. How can a Member of this House speak so badly about it claiming that he has other serious business to do and that even if he does not attend House business, he will be re-elected? Who are these people who do not judge a Member whether he attends Parliament or not? That must be a constituency in Uganda or Tanzania or somewhere else, but not in Kenya. I am not saying that Members of those countries do not attend parliamentary business, but I am alluding to the fact that the House is so important that a Member cannot speak the way Hon. Sudi did."
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