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    "id": 958191,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, it is fair we listen to one another. I have taken time to listen to Hon. Shamalla. I appreciate the position taken by the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. However, I take exception to what the Leader of the Minority Party has said - that we cannot discuss this matter. I agree with him that as a Christian, I would not like to be in a forum where this matter is being discussed. However, the question that is being put to the Hon. Speaker is whether this Petition was first rightly before the House. Hon. Speaker allowed the Petition to be considered by a Committee of the House and the Committee has come to seek for extra time to consider the work that was given by this House. We would be very unfair to Hon. Shamalla, if she is the one who brought the Petition, or to the Committee and to the Kenyan public, having spent public funds to consider it only to kill it at this stage. It is only fair we allow the Committee to have time to consider the matter and give us a report to address the very pertinent issues, especially on funding. Otherwise, if we do not allow the Committee and kill it at this stage, in essence, we will be saying one thing with our mouths and saying a different thing from the other corner of the mouth. If gays and lesbians or whatever else they are called are being funded by certain people here, and we have forces here that do not want us to know who are funding them and why they are funding them... It is only right that we allow the Committee to finish its work and give us a report. This House has a mandate to decide whether to stop the funding, ban them or take whatever action it chooses to take. It is up to us to decide once a report is tabled, but before a report is tabled, it is very unfair to shout here and not listen to each other. Let us be a House where we listen to each other and reason with each other, not shout at each other."
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