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    "id": 1158364,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "The crisis affects everyone across the political divide. My contribution will be based on the principle that we have a responsibility and duty of care to make sure that Kenyans are better served. There are many arguments around why we find ourselves where we are today in terms of the fuel crisis. Some people are blaming cartels; others are blaming the Government, while others are blaming the war in Ukraine. There a lot of excuses around where we find ourselves today. In countries that profess democracy and where leaders truly care about the well- being of their citizens, what should have happened by now, the Minister responsible for petroleum should have resigned and gone home or provided Kenyans with a solution to this crisis. This matter is not getting any easier by the day; the crisis is deepening. Yesterday, I listened to the Principal Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining saying that he would be holding a meeting with the fuel marketers on Wednesday. That is a leader who is completely out of touch with the reality on the ground. How can you say on a Monday that you will be having a meeting with marketers on Wednesday to understand the crisis and see what you can do? In real and true democracies, this is the time that everything stops and we mop up money available in other sectors of the economy to stabilize the fuel crisis in this country. Last week, I brought a Statement to the Floor of this House. The import of my Statement was to be given an update on the status of the stabilization fund for petroleum in the National Treasury. I hope that the Committee that was given this responsibility is working on the Statement, so that we can know which way to go. If my time runs out, I will request for a minute. We must call out leaders. We should also be called out when we are on the wrong. It is not politically hygienic for the Deputy President (DP) of the Republic of Kenya to go to the press and blame the Government for this crisis. It has been said, and I want to add my voice to it, that there is only one President in this country and there is only one principal assistant to the President. On a matter like this, both the President and his principal assistant are our fathers. When the DP cries about a crisis in the petroleum sector, what are the consumers and the ordinary citizens supposed to do? I call upon all of us, because we are all leaders, to do what we have to do to ensure that we stabilize petroleum prices, so that we stabilize the prices of other commodities. Of great importance and urgency is to ensure that we have fuel running in those pumps as early as this evening. Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker."
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