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    "id": 1157801,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David ole Sankok",
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        "legal_name": "David Ole Sankok",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Statement by Hon. Duale. It has come at the right time when Kenyans are really suffering. We are in an emergency situation. I thank the Vice Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Energy – I do not know why she is not the Chair – for giving us an assurance that she will bring the answer by Tuesday next week. Hon. Speaker, Kenyans are lining up and carrying petroleum products in jerrican Some of them may even smoke around these petrol stations which is dangerous. Yesterday, the PS for State Department of Petroleum citing panic buying was the most retrogressive answer I have heard from a top government official. This House should censure such public servants who are not aware of what is happening and the suffering of Kenyans. How can panic buying cause shortage? Does it mean that our car tanks have enlarged and they are now consuming more fuel? In the same interview, the PS said that they have allocated Ksh34 billion to oil marketers and fuel will be made available soon yet in the same breath, he attributed the fuel shortage to the war between Russian and Ukraine. I do not know how the Ksh34 billion will stop the war in Ukraine for us to get fuel by Wednesday. Such casual answers from public servants are shameful. Hon. Speaker, I saw this coming because of conflict of interest in business. The moment Rubis entered into the market, we knew such things will happen as taxes would now be diverted to private businesses, the way we have diverted Kenya Airways (KQ) funds to private…"
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