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    "id": 1001068,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1001068/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 51,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "In fact, if we give the people a little cash, they can buy what they want from the nearby shopping centres. That will even improve the economy of those shopping centres in the rural areas. I want to make it very clear, let me not hide, that I have even discussed this matter with the President. We are reading from the same page, that this House allocates billions of shillings to relief food. Why can we not give those billions of shillings to the affected people even if it means every person receiving Kshs3,000 or Kshs2,000? As they buy unga and tea leaves at the nearby shopping centres, the economies of those areas will improve. Because we are dealing with the Budget, that should be the route to go for us, as a House, instead of giving our people maize year in, year out. We have been doing so since Independence. If you give somebody maize or rice, what else will he do with it? It is better to give somebody Kshs2,000 or Kshs3,000. We should think outside the box. Our Chairman is here. The Ministry of Devolution and Arid and Semi-Arid Lands should go that route, going forward."
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