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    "id": 926045,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/926045/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jude Njomo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1784,
        "legal_name": "Jude L. Kangethe Njomo",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I wanted to support what Hon. Gikaria said about ratifying treaties. In this particular one, it was like we have only two options of either accepting it or rejecting it. We have no legal situation where we can do any adjustment to the treaty yet today most of the business that the Government does relies on treaties that they sign with other countries. We know that when the colonialists came to the country with chips, they signed treaties that affected our country until we had to go and fight. Through these treaties we are signing, we are giving opportunities to other countries to make billions of shillings from our country and we sit back and say that we do not have the capacity to run them. These kinds of treaties should be subjected to competitive bidding like any other business in the country. We do not want to have the Italians come here, they do business for decades, our country is not making any money and then we are told we do not have the capacity. Let us subject this treaty and this business to competitive bidding like any other business and then we will get the best bidder and get the best benefit for our country and for our people because that is how business is done in other sections of the world. Why should we do it differently? Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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