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    "id": 1157610,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sakaja",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there is something terribly wrong with our system. Let me give you a very clear example of why it is affecting livelihoods today in the Nairobi City County. I have many ladies and gentlemen these days who are in what we call the chapati industry. They buy a packet of wheat flour, oil and whatever ingredients. They make chapatis’ and they sell them to the hustlers in mjengo and juakali industry for at least Kshs30. What used to happen is this; before the total cost would be around Kshs615 to produce those 25 chapatis. One packet of wheat flour produces 25 chapatis’. That packet was Kshs115, oil was Kshs250, charcoal was Kshs100, labour you would say around Kshs100 as well and miscellaneous you know the salt and what they are paying to have their stand et cetera another Kshs100. So, in total, it comes to Kshs615. So, if you sell all those 25 chapatis’ at Kshs30 you make Kshs750 and you have a profit. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, today that same packet is Kshs200, oil is Kshs400, the charcoal is either Kshs100, the labour is Kshs100 and miscellaneous is Kshs100. Meaning to produce those 25 chapatis is Kshs900. How much will you sell “ chapatimadondo” to make a profit? Will you sell one chapati at Kshs50 because it is costing you Kshs900. I am trying to be practical and that is just one example. I know so many other business people who have been affected. There is one line in Mukuru kwa Njenga where they were 15 of them who were doing so, producing and selling chapatis . Currently, 14 of them have closed. Only one is left. I do not know what they are doing and may be it is like a hobby to them now. They are not making profit at all. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that person who was buying that food has not had an increment in their salary and allowance. Can you honestly think of a person in a mjengo buying a chapati at Kshs50? One chapati is not enough because of the kind of work they do."
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