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    "id": 938387,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " This is absolute impersonation. You are impersonating. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We have passionately debated this Bill. It is simply because it is not touching so much on us. In fact, it does not. This Bill touches on former Members who sat here between 1984 and 2001. I believe none of us was here at that time. For purposes of posterity, since we are now going back a little bit so that we can cover this, it is important for us to thank Hon. John Mbadi for having brought this Bill. Also, he has for the first time disclosed his third name. He is actually called Ng’ongo. So, we will be referring to him by that name, so that it suits our circumstances. I contribute to this Bill with a heavy heart and wonder why this Bill was not brought to this House even at the promulgation of the First Parliament at Independence. What we have witnessed and the testimonies we have listened to point to one thing; that our former Members of Parliament live in abject poverty only receiving peanuts. Most of them have succumbed to the vagaries of life such that we have nothing much to talk about them. We have nothing much to write home about them apart from to mourn, whine and cringe that they have lived their lives when Parliaments have been coming and going."
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