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    "id": 916084,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "I can tell you for free! You might condemn Jaguar, but he is tonight and today the most popular Member of Parliament in his constituency. In fact, if I was him, when they were waiting for him at the entrance of Parliament, I wanted him to come out and put on those pingu things and then walk away. That is how you get votes. It is by standing with your people. I am telling you. It is by standing with your people. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations and the Committee on Regional Integration must walk from here to Busia. Why is maize from Uganda being dumped in Kenya? Why are animal feeds being dumped in Kenya? I will give you a good example. Vimal Shah of BIDCO has a factory in Jinja and another one in Thika. He supplies all edible oils from his factory in Jinja to the whole of Western Kenya, the Rift Valley and Nyanza. That is what he is doing. By doing that, our Kenyan people in Thika lose. People are being laid off at his factory in Thika. So, colleagues, we agree that the statement was hate speech in some ways. That is not how we should behave but we are under obligation. As the Leader of the Majority Party, I am ready to defend Wanjiku in Gikomba. I am ready to defend those guys who are in Eastleigh. I am ready to defend the people who sell small items in our country, our farmers of eggs, milk and so forth. Hon. Speaker, I think you need to direct the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Regional Integration, to go and talk to people in Gikomba. We should form a select committee to bring a report. That report must be discussed. This is a matter which is very serious. It is affecting businesses in Western Kenya. Our people cannot sell. They cannot get their money. There are pending bills. So, you want to kill our people. The Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations must ask why Sylvia Mulinge, a competent professional lady, became a CEO of Vodacom and Magufuli and his Government refused to allow her in. There are many such cases. There are many Tanzanians, top guys, who work in Kenya. We have never denied them the opportunity to work in Kenya. Kenyans are being denied work permits. You ask our people and they will tell you. I am talking because the CEO of Barclays Bank Tanzania comes from my constituency. I talk to him every day. He tells me what Kenyans go through in Tanzania. You are not MPs of Tanzania. Tanzanians have their MPs. They are in Dodoma. This Committee is supposed to protect Kenyans. You are not sitting here on behalf of Magufuli or Museveni."
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