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    "id": 114724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muthama",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Nduya Muthama",
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    "content": "there seeking help from the person they elected to lead them! Where do you want me to send them now?” The Minister had no answer to give to the President, but he told him to try his level best and see how the problem could be solved. Kenyatta told him; “You and that DC who told them to leave that place, I want in the next two days to hear that they have been settled.” If the Government is in place, where else can we send these Kenyans? Where shall we tell them to go to be assisted? IDPs are rightful Kenyans and they have constitutional rights. Truly, if you want to say that the Grand Coalition Government has achieved anything, it has to settle those Kenyans and give them back their rights. Nothing will hurt like when you go back to your house and then you find that someone else has occupied that house; he has got all the rights and he is telling you: “This house does not belong to you; I have taken it over; it is mine; and it belongs to me”. The first thing you imagine is to go to the police station, the police then turns you away; you go to the PC’s office and the PC turns you away; you seek to see the Minister and the Minister will have no capacity to help you. You will then seek to see the President and if you do not get the help there, all I can say is that the world is over for that person. Kenyans are suffering and they need to be assisted by the Government that they elected. I want to say that to eliminate poverty in Kenya is very easy. The only thing this Government needs to do is to work round the clock to make sure that the middle class that lacks in this country is created. The middle class includes teachers, chiefs and district officers. Those are the people who do zero-grazing and hire maids. Those are the people who hire shamba boys. The jobs that we want to create are not the permanent secretaries’ jobs. We are not looking at those top class jobs in this country. When we talk about creating jobs for 500,000 Kenyans, we are talking about shamba boys, clerks and those kinds of groups. Those are the people who need to work and generate that little income to keep them going. So, if the middle class group is created and empowered in this country, they will hire many people and we will not have young people flooding to Nairobi to look for jobs."
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