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    "id": 1200832,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am happy for this opportunity. I have really waited. When I spoke to the Hon. Speaker, he told me to wait, which I have done. I wish to congratulate you and the Hon. Speaker for having been elected to your positions. I wish to thank my constituents, the Karachuonyo people, for electing me the second time to the 13th Parliament. I want to refer to the President’s Speech and, in particular, on the cost of living. When he removed the subsidy on fuel, it meant that the cost of living had to go up. As we speak, the cost of living has gone quite high and the fuel is reaching a level of unaffordability. It is the policy on subsidy production rather than consumption which may not work for Kenyans. For example, if you take the fuel which is imported, the production part is done in a country outside Kenya and, therefore, the policy of subsidising productivity cannot apply. That is because we cannot afford to give subsidy to a country outside ours. This is something that should be considered because when fuel price goes up, it gives rise to prices of almost every commodity. The one thing that I think the President ought to have mentioned - but he very much avoided it - is corruption. Much of our money goes there. When the President says that he wants to reduce the budget of Kshs3.3 trillion by Kshs0.3 trillion, he is trying to make ends meet. Reduction of a budget does not help anything because it depends on what the budget was meant to do. If you reduce it by Kshs300 billion, that money was supposed to do something for Kenyans! How is he going to fund that deficit? This is something that needs to be considered. Otherwise, we are going to have a problem. Maybe, he should have gained that Kshs300 billion by reducing corruption at a much higher figure than the figure that he wants to reduce with. The President visited my own county and I thank him very much for that. Some people have criticized us, we the elected leaders, that we did not join the President during his visit. Let me say it here and now that the criticism is not justified at all. We did not join the President because we did not even know that he was going to Homa Bay County. Therefore, saying that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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