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    "id": 1072507,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Statement by Sen. Khaniri. This is a very heavy Statement that really needs to be executed in a speedy manner. When you look at fuel, it has economic and even social benefits. It also has domestic benefits. When you look at the domestic benefits - I am talking about the common mwananchi - many families use fuel. When the prices go up it means that the common mwananchi has to really look for ways and means of getting money for fuel yet even jobs are not there; the shilling is not really easy to come by. When it comes to economic benefits, it has primary and secondary effects because when fuel goes up it means that the economy will also go up. It means that business people will also strain trying to look for fuel and even prices of transport will go high. Fuel aids in transport of people. It also aids in people moving from one point to another and businesspeople also selling their merchandise from one place to another; looking for their merchandise and ensuring that they are also bring it to the market. When the prices are high this affects businesspeople. All kinds of persons are affected. The high and mighty are also affected. Increase of fuel also flouts the economy of scale and deviates from it highly. The economy of scale intends that when the demand is high, then the production of goods is in high demand, meaning that the prices are supposed to be low. It is ironic that fuel is in high demand, production is voluminous but then the prices are high. This irony needs to be ironed out with the Committee on Energy which needs to really interrogate this issue of fuel for the purpose of ensuring that the common man in alleviated from the burden of having to look for money for fuel. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you are driving from here to Eldoret you use more than Kshs50,000 in just one trip alone, even before going into the interior. This is because when you go there as a legislator, you have to go to the grassroots and meet the people. You end up spending more than you had anticipated. There is need for the Government to relook at this issue so that everyone can be helped in the matter of fuel. Transport allowance that people get at their place of work needs to be raised so that people are able to work effectively. We must see how this issue of fuel can be addressed because people do use electricity but there are cases when electricity is not there in the house. What is subsidized is the generator. The generator is usually fuel-powered and consumes a lot of fuel. There is need for the Committee to ensure that something is done to ensure that the prices of fuel come down."
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