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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to make my remarks. For the record, my good friend, Sen. Wetangula, told me to sober up. I do not drink anymore. I stopped that three years ago because my health could not take it anymore. You know, he drinks but he is always sober. So for the records I do not drink; I am always sober. I want to thank my colleague for his best wishes to me that I should get elected and I would equally want to give him best wishes. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is true that the President said that a lot of money is stolen every day, about Kshs2 billion. He went further and attributed that theft to the coalition that Sen. Wetangula belongs to. He said that those who are in that coalition are the thieves. Therefore, if we are to quote the President, as having said that money is lost every day, we should quote him fully, that the thieves belong to that coalition that he attributed that theft to. If his statement is that of fact, then it is also a fact that those thieves are the ones who want him to resign at this very critical time when we want an orderly transition. We want everybody stationed where they are supposed to be. We want all of us to campaign soberly and then elect the person we think will take us through the crisis. We do not want any resignation including you, Madam Temporary Speaker. We do not want you to resign. If you resign, I do not know what will happen to us in this House. The fuel shortage is a serious crisis. Two days ago I left my house for a meeting. I did not know that I did not have fuel in my vehicle and my car stalled somewhere. I had to go back to my house on a boda boda to pick another vehicle. I found that it did not have fuel and a third one also did not have fuel. I nearly thought of walking to my meeting. I was late for that meeting by an hour. I am just glad or fortunate that it was a meeting and not something life threatening. Many Kenyans who are caught up in such serious crisis must be suffering indeed. This is not a matter to be politicized. All of us in this House and in the National Assembly are responsible for the high fuel cost. We passed the Bill which became law that raised the fuel cost. We were persuaded that the passage of such a Bill was because we needed to raise more revenue. We have done that and we must take responsibility. The leader of Kenya Kwanza said that it was a good move and he must equally take that responsibility. We cannot come up at the very end of our tenure to attribute blame to a faction or a section of our society. We must take that blame and approach this fuel crisis together. We know that provision for subsidies has always been made in the budget including many things but do we get exchequer releases on time? I sit as the chairperson of County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC). All the counties never receive their monies in time. I do not know what happened in this one, but it would be important for this matter to be referred to the"
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