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    "id": 993510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Linturi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 69,
        "legal_name": "Franklin Mithika Linturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, where we are seated today, if I got Sen. Kang’ata correctly, then the decision we are taking this afternoon has no basis. It has not been decided on the basis of substance, truth and evidence. It is a political decision. Political decisions have consequences and we will go by them. As we look forward, and we must be in a position to get more sober now, we need to see how in the contemplated constitutional reforms if they will be coming, we can protect offices of Parliament from external influence. I believe this has given us an opportunity to reflect further on what we are doing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to tell Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki that do not be worried. You are more popular today than you were yesterday in Meru. I can swear that when I go home tonight and appear in a station, the kind of confidence and the messages the people are sending to us are greater than the lack of confidence being purported as the reason why Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki has to go home. We are not worried. We can remember history. The next political assassination happening here is Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki who is being assassinated by Jubilee Party which he has served with a lot of diligence. Allow me to quote Chinua Achebe in his book Things Fall Apart . He said- “A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground, it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.” These are the words stated by Julius Ceasar in 44BC upon his brutal stabbing 23 times by a loyalist: “You too?” The Meru nation has asked: You too, “Mr. Party Leader”? You too, “Mr. Jubilee”? You have stabbed Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. Rarely has a single man done so much for so few. Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki fought for our party and the President. He helped us write our new Constitution and the Jubilee Party manifesto. It is a shameful moment in this House."
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