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    "id": 1082737,
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    "speaker_name": "Fafi, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mohamed Abdikhaim",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikhaim Osman Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Report. I was not a Member of Parliament when Kibaki was the President. We still remember him as one of the best Presidents we have ever had because he used to say that the northern part of Kenya was Kenya and should be opened up. We got the first tarmac road from Nairobi to the Ethiopian Border during his presidency. The late President Moi recognised us as Kenyans. We got our first Minister through Moi and he brought us to Kenya. As a Member of KANU, I still miss him. The Committee visited parts of Kenya and left out 70 per cent of the landmass; the northern part of Kenya. My constituency is the third largest in the country. The largest constituency is North Horr, where the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Planning comes from while the second largest is Wajir South, where Mr. Speaker was on Monday. I have two customs posts in my constituency – Amuma and Hulugho, which I share with my sister, Hon. Sofia. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to be frank with you that the biggest problem in this country is corruption. We always talk about corruption. We cannot collect tax if we do not fight it. Another problem is monopoly of greedy people who want to get rich quickly. I have no idea where they are going to spend this money because you will find someone with about Kshs10 billion in their account but they are still looking for more. They deliberately kill other businesses so that they are the only ones making money. As stated by my neighbour, Hon. Dahir Duale, Member for Dadaab, we want the Committee to visit the northern part of Kenya. Fifty per cent of the commodities sold in markets in this country come from Ethiopia or Somalia. We have a border point with South Sudan but nobody has visited it. The Committee has not gone to Fafi and Liboi, where the Member for Dadaab comes from. It has also not gone to Moyale. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Energy and before I was elected, I was a businessman exporting fuel. Our fuel business has been taken over by Tanzania and other EAC countries because of corruption. Adulteration is killing our oil industry. You will go to a depot and see trucks loading and after that, they go to a shamba where they mix kerosene with motor vehicle fuels. That is why most vehicle owners in this country have to always replace the engines of their vehicles.It is because of adulteration of fuel. Corruption is killing us. Most of the commodities coming through the northern part of Kenya, especially Ethiopia and Somalia, come through police barriers all the way to Nairobi. They do not pay taxes and yet now we are talking about collecting taxes. Why can we not have KRA officers at the borders to collect taxes and legalise the goods that come to the country illegally. So, I want the Committee to visit the area. I know the Chair is capable."
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