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    "id": 1103871,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Milgo",
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        "legal_name": "Milgo Alice Chepkorir",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Censure Motion. I thank the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Orengo for bringing it. This is a matter of great concern because it touches on power and fuel which affects three-quarter of the populous in the country. This is a challenge which comes on the hills of Covid-19 which has destroyed livelihoods and broken the chains of business. People are unable to meet their basic needs. Fuel and power are commodities that touch each and every area of the livelihoods of our people. They affect activities such as movement, food prices, schooling, health, production and investments. If this continues, there will be many cases of suicide, just like what we have been seeing lately. There is an increase in mental health cases because people cannot meet their basic needs. Many investors have moved to our neighbouring countries because the prices of fuel and power have been escalating, which affects investment activities. However, the prices of fuel in other countries such as Tanzania and Uganda are low. This has taken away the investors that we are supposed to get in the country. This also makes our youth, who constitute, three-quarters or 75 per cent of our population to lose jobs. As the price of fuel continues to escalate, it touches many sectors including farming. As we speak, to plough a piece of land which used to cost Kshs3000 has now gone up to Kshs6500. This means that farmers will give up, which will make the country become food relief because of lack of food production. As we speak, the second payment of tea that is popularly known as ‘bonus’ in Kericho and tea growing areas has been released. However, the prices are low. The reason is that the price of production has gone up because of high prices of fuel and power. I am sure that farmers will end up either uprooting the crop or letting it grow without tending to it. We have been saying that farming tea, coffee and such crops improves the economy of our country. Madam Deputy Speaker, more often than not, when we summon our Cabinet Secretaries (CSs), it is quite unfortunate that they rarely attend to our summons and meetings."
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