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    "id": 1164724,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "we go forward beyond 9th August, we might have an election and many or few of us may be returned to the positions we seek. However, we are unlikely to enjoy legitimacy. If you understand legitimacy, it means being properly mandated by the public and enjoying public confidence to run affairs. The signs and writings are on the wall, that the public is impatient with political and elected leadership because we are not solving or offering solutions to things that matter to them. They are already indicating that when you put out your Curriculum Vitae (CV) as a politician, they frown upon it and say that you are just one of the monkeys form the same forest. I am happy that our colleague here has raised the sensitivity of the cost of living that is causing trouble in this nation. I come from Migori county and this is where I have the privilege to lead. The runaway insecurity in Awendo sub-county is because of unemployment and the high cost of living. My father who is old, getting frail and unable to move now cannot leave his chicken in his compound. People who may not have food on the table may pick it if they realize he is not there. I am just mentioning him, not because he is the only one with chicken, but to tell you the level of desperation out there, because of poverty and the high cost of living. In rural homes, where we do have the ability to pay for guards, Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) and to fence our homes, it is no longer safe to dry your clothes on the line and leave your home unguarded. It is no longer tenable to grow maize or things that we normally grow for food away from home, because of the kind of desperation we have. It is the duty of the Government and institutions such as Parliament that approve funding for Government and all the leadership to try and solve this matter. In fact, there is no leadership without followership. This high cost of living is causing anxiety and concern among our followers. Very soon if we do not offer a solution by doing what we must do through legislation, policy and through the Executive, I can assure you that our followers will overtake us and provide solutions that will be similar to a revolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not wish to be part of the generation who were rendered functus officio because we saw a revolution coming and did not do anything to stop it or to persuade those who were agitating for it to give the nation a second chance. I hope that Sen. Cherargei who has raised this matter will not relent. I hope he did not raise it just for political reasons to point it out to those who are seeking political offices now, that we are sitting on a powder and a time bomb. It is now the duty of those who are seeking elective office and those in leadership through appointative office or in business to resolve that time bomb and not allow it to explode on our laps and get us into trouble. With those very many remarks, I express my optimism that we shall find a lasting solution to the runaway cost of food and necessities in this country. I Support."
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