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    "id": 1072502,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also want to join the rest of my colleagues in supporting this Statement from Sen. Khaniri and speak on behalf of citizens of this Republic who continue to suffer the misadventure of this current administration that strangely believes that you can tax your way into prosperit y. Somehow, by continually increasing taxes, they will fill the budget deficit for their poor economic policies. The unfortunate thing is that as a leadership jointly or cumulatively as Parliament do share in the blame because we are all Members of this House or Parliament (MPs). We have our own Committee on Energy, Roads and Transport where I was a Member for quite a long time, both last term and for the longer part of this current Session of Parliament. On many occasions, we used to receive these Petitions continually from Kenyans, whether it regards the cost of fuel as the case is being prosecuted right now, or the cost of power by Kenya Power Company (KPC). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to date, none of those Petitions or Statements have been successfully resolved. It is an unfortunate occurrence that we as a House jointly stand accused of not being able to call the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum to task. To bring them here and ask questions on behalf of the people that we represent, so that we understand the policy direction with regard to the cost of energy in this country. We read daily in our newspapers about businesses that are relocating because of the high cost of energy in this Republic. Be it petrol, or other sources of energy like KPC. We have never been able to give Kenyans a substantive answer. In fact, Kenyans have almost given up on us as a House. That is why we have Petitions and public pleadings like the switch off KPC campaign that was run by a renowned activist, Jerotich Seii, who pushed Kenya Power Company, though unsuccessfully. This is because some of these corporations are extremely influential. The people that own them control the labours of power in this country. Therefore, it is not easy to take on them. Those are courageous Kenyans who do not have a platform like us, who are MPs. The things that we can say in this House is not out of careless abundance of caution that the Constitution gave us this platform where anything that you say here in the House of Parliament, nobody can take you elsewhere to try you for it, because it is assumed that you are doing it in pursuit of the interests of the people that you represent."
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