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    "id": 1102600,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1102600/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mandera West, EFP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yussuf Adan",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13420,
        "legal_name": "Adan Haji Yussuf",
        "slug": "adan-haji-yussuf-2"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. I also echo what my colleagues are saying that increasing fuel prices haphazardly means increasing the whole life and livelihood of Kenyans. Fuel is everything. It is the driver of all the economy. Today morning as I was driving along Mombasa Road, it was very unusual indeed in that there was no traffic. This is because most of the Kenyans today morning could not afford to drive themselves to work which means they take a walk and take a long time to reach their work places. They spend a lot of time on the way and that means we lose a lot in the economy. There was this lady who was using kerosene to prepare and sell tea. At the end of the day, she would maybe make about Kshs200 to feed her children. It was in the media yesterday that she was now going to look for firewood. We are going to destroy our vegetation. That will mean that we will be polluting our environment. We will not even get oxygen. All this is as a result of this haphazard increase of fuel prices. The period that we review fuel prices - which is monthly - is just too short. The petrol stations come with big supplies of fuel. By increasing the prices, we are doubling prices at the expense of the rural Kenyans and others including me and you. Therefore, this is our obligation as a House to ensure that we intervene on anything that affects the wananchi negatively, by bringing amendments to some of these laws and ensure that wananchi do not suffer. That is our primary responsibility. Therefore, I am happy that we have all debated and we are still debating on this but what we need is for the relevant departments to come up with those amendments as soon as possible. Fuel price reviews should be done maybe by…"
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