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    "content": "In Kenya, we should also try as much as possible. At the end of the day, what is governance for if it is not to make peoples’ lives better and the cost of living cheaper? At the end of the day, we should be happy when we pass legislation that a Kenyan can stand up and say that they truly live in caring society. Unfortunately, all these matters are sometimes lost in translation. For example, now, we are looking towards 2022. If you allow these kinds of things to happen, I do not think that whoever is going to take over Government in 2022 will have good nights’ sleep. They will not because this has an impact on debt, and debt has an impact on these rising costs. Why would the Government need to make Kenyans pay twice as much as they should pay for a gallon of petrol? It is because we are living beyond our means, we have over borrowed, or corruption has become a way of life that we have to budget for. Instead of making people’s lives better, we are trying to give subsidy to corruption, waste and bad governance. Madam Deputy Speaker, I do not want to take any longer on this matter because there has been a very robust debate. I thank the Seconder, Sen. Wetangula, because I gave him very short notice and he did justice to this Motion. I could take my time to congratulate every single Member. I will take a record of the deliberations of this House on this matter. If I have space in my autobiography, some of these discussions in this debate will, on my part, go down as a debate that I was very proud of in the manner in which every Senator approached this matter. Madam Deputy Speaker, I just want to conclude. Some people have said that this is because of the ‘handshake.’ It cannot be because of the ‘handshake.’ I think that is trying to politicise a purely economic and governance issue. I do not want to stand here and say that this Motion was brought for any political purposes. This Motion was just brought to speak for the common man; the Kenyan people. As you say that Sen. Orengo brought this Motion, I did not bring it. When we were meeting here as a Committee of the Whole House, it was because of those discussions that came in the Committee of the Whole House. The Committee said that this matter must be raised in Plenary in the afternoon. It was the House in Plenary that decided. In fact, we went for an adjournment that a substantive Motion should be brought to discuss this matter. Therefore, it is not my Motion. I was simply carrying out the directions of the House. Madam Deputy Speaker, as I sat here, nobody has opposed this Motion. If they are not going to do a voice vote--- It is a Motion where if you wanted to vote by your feet, that will not count. In essence, the vote for this, in my view, has been unanimous even for those who are not here because of the other duties they are performing. I thank you and the House. I beg to move."
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