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    "id": 990654,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "roads. We can live without roads as we eat. Right now what Kenyans are concerned about is food to eat. So, we must provide funds for our people to eat. In every constituency, those who live below the poverty line must get Government funding to be able to eat. By the way, the figures are there. If you come to my constituency, you will find that they are numbering about 6,000 households. If you extrapolate that to the whole country, it comes to between 1.8 million and 2 million households. A household averages six people. Feeding these people for four or five months would need not more than Kshs20 billion. This is something this country can afford. So, as a House, this is the time for us to rise to the occasion, look at the Budget that has been tabled and deal with this issue radically to make sure that food is provided to our people. The Leader of the Majority Party has talked about police brutality. Other Members have talked about police brutality. I want to repeat it that, whereas we support the enforcement of various regulations and rules so that our people do not get infected with Coronavirus, it is not a licence to anybody in this country to re-introduce police torture and cases of mishandling Kenyans. Our Constitution is robust about human rights. Human rights must be respected. Where one violates the rules, there is the due process of the law. Follow the due process of the law, but do not kill our people. They do not deserve to die. The Constitution is clear. No one is allowed to take the life of another person. Whoever is taking advantage of this crisis to bring back dictatorship to the country must stop. There are even cases of eviction we see in some areas. I am not talking about those people who have been stealing land, like in Ruai. You can deal with those ones because you do not even see them there."
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