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    "id": 953349,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mvita, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Abdullswamad Nassir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdulswamad Sheriff Nassir",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, with due respect, I request you to rule that the Leader of the Majority Party and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) come out clear. I will want you to give a ruling on this one. The Chair of BAC talked. He tried very hard to refrain himself from mentioning names of people. Eventually, his tongue slipped. He eventually mentioned my Governor. I want your ruling to declare that he is totally out of order, and that mentioning someone who cannot defend himself in this House is not based on the traditions of this House. That is someone who has already come out in the open to talk about this matter. Secondly, the Hon. Member has asked me whether I have any interest to declare. My interest is not even for the people of Mombasa alone. It is for every single township that exists along the highway from Mombasa all the way to the final terminal of the SGR. All those towns are dying. I do not speak for myself. I speak for the Member for Garissa Township as well, Hon. Duale. It is easier for a truck to carry milk from Garissa to Mombasa and to other parts of the country than it is for relying on the SGR. I speak on behalf of the same Member of Kikuyu. It is easier for us to carry potatoes and eggs from Kikuyu Constituency to other parts of the country using the trucking system than using the SGR. What is the basis for seeking this Statement? I agree with Hon. Duale that in this very House, I earlier on requested that the Cabinet Secretary for Transport comes to Parliament to respond to some issues. You ordered that he comes, and he came. He is on record as having said that “it has been withdrawn”. We need to be oblivious of what is on the ground. The places that hon. Members are talking about in their gumzo mtaani chit-chat are the same places where people are crying out loudly. On the ground, we seem to discuss issues but when Cabinet Secretaries appear before Committees of this whole House, the sanctity of this very House is abused. We are all being abused. When a Cabinet Secretary comes and misleads this House, through a Committee, or a Committee Chair comes here to directly say that it has already been declared illegal, and that it has been lifted and yet something like that has not been done on the ground, it is not us, the people of Mombasa alone, who are being abused. It is this very House. That is why we are asking you to clearly, declare that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing or his representatives should, by Thursday, come up with a written document saying that, that is the situation and that it should be happening on the ground. If there is someone who is misleading the Cabinet Secretary, let that someone face the full wrath of the law. 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."
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