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    "id": 1164300,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1164300/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "is that we have all become complainers. We in leadership are supposed to be the ones providing solutions and yet from the President to the Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs), we are all complaining. You will find the Head of State complaining on run-away corruption and placing the blame somewhere, yet they have the instruments of power to deal with corruption. Members of Parliament are twitting that we should bring down the cost of living and yet we were elected to do this job. Mr. Speaker Sir, I like what Sen. Sakaja said that we must take practical steps and take the decisions of this House seriously. Sen. Cherargei’s Statement should go beyond the Committee of this House investigating the matter. As a matter of urgency, we need to sit down with our colleagues in the National Assembly and see how, through the Finance Bill, we can bring down the cost of fuel. We all know that fuel is one component. If we reduce the cost of fuel, it will have direct impact on the cost of living. We must also sit down with our colleagues in the National Assembly, look at the Budget and inject resources in the areas of intervention for the economy, especially from the bottom up, in order to see the common mwananchi being cushioned. People are talking about the cash transfer but there is a way that you can do it better. Before we even give our people the cash transfer, which they are receiving now, through taxes, we can remove the burden from mwananchi. If we remove fuel taxes and other taxes that are affecting the low cadre of wananchi, commonly referred in our colloquial term as ‘hustlers’ who are doing common business, we will find a proper solution to the problem that has been bedeviling this country. If we debate on the Floor of this House until the cows come home, we are not going to solve the problem. We need to go straight to the National Assembly and deal with this issue through the Finance Bill and the budgeting process so that we can have these interventions. If we continue like this to the election day, Kenyans will most likely protest voting for us just to make a statement. We need to be seen to be closing ranks. I have seen the Senate Minority Leader has arrived and is very happy. As part of the leadership of this House, we must all sit down and see how our people are going to be protected from the high cost of living. It is simple the Government has always had subsidy for farmers all over the world. The countries that subsidise most for their farmers are Europe and the United States of America (USA). We need subsidies for our farmers. Instead of fertilizer retailing at Kshs6000, I request H.E Uhuru Kenyatta to respect the farmers of this country and take the money from all these other political functions and subsidise the prices of fertilizers and farm inputs including seeds. Kenyans can then plant and support our economy."
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