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    "id": 1158216,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to salute the distinguished Senator for Murang’a for bringing this Motion at this timely period. It does not matter which side of the political divide you stand or sit today; the country is hurting badly because the price of fuel has skyrocketed to unprecedented levels. Last week, I left Nairobi on Wednesday and fuelled a car at Kshs123 per litre. After two days, I fuelled the same car in Kisumu at Kshs152 per litre. Madam Temporary Speaker, Kisumu is your county. It is not because of the traders, but because of the irresponsible manner in which this uncaring Government is handling public affairs. This is a critical moment in this country. The rains are setting in and so the breadbasket of this country, these are the counties stretching from Nakuru all the way to the Uganda border, which includes your county, are preparing for planting season for the main staple food crop of this country which is maize. There is no diesel and so farmers cannot plough their farms. Those who use large scale equipment or planting machines cannot do so because there is no diesel. Those with last year’s harvest cannot ferry the crop to the market because there is no fuel. That creates a crisis that hits everybody, more so particularly persons living in urban centres with no farms and who rely on buying food. Kenyans travel to and from work because of our attachment to our rural homes. Every weekend, Kenyans travel to their rural homes from where they work. Nairobi is virtually half empty during weekends. People travel to Kiambu, Murang’a, Nakuru, and all the way to Western Kenya. Now they cannot travel because at the moment the price of fuel has skyrocketed. Because there is no fuel, everybody wants to take advantage of the other. Fuel is a critical component of every production sector. Whether you are talking of flour milling, you need fuel. When you talk of baking bread, you need fuel. To generate electricity from thermal plants, you need fuel. We need fuel in each and every life production line in this country. What is shocking is that this uncaring Government has remained mute. They have maintained a conspiracy of silence because they are not talking. I just hope the distinguished young nominated Senator is not the Government’s spokesman on the Floor of this House, telling us that there is a shortage of fuel in Tanzania, which is not true. Assuming it was, what has it got to do with Kenya? Madam Temporary Speaker, we have even been told untruths that the Ukraine war is affecting Kenya’s fuel supply---"
}