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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have the clergy in this country. It is upon them to wake up and stand to be counted in this country. We have the ongoing debate about the Constitution. We have a big problem of unemployment among the youth, high level of insecurity and the undesired situation of unaffordable prices of basic commodities. I call upon the clergy to stand up and be counted when it comes to those national matters. Unless and until everyone of us stands up to face the situation in this country, I fear that the Kenya we are looking for may not be the one that we will have in future. Let me caution that the issue before us is not simple or casual. It is an issue that has happened in other countries in the past and recent times and has led into undesired situations. In India and Egypt, we have witnessed the strikes that have occurred on the streets. We witnessed the sad situation that occurred in France when people were unable to get a meal per day. In 1933, we should remember that America, the country that we keep on proudly quoting, was in a more serious situation that what our country is facing - where an ordinary person cannot afford an ordinary meal. The then President Roosevelt introduced the same measures that we are calling for today. He introduced price control, price ranges, labour intensive projects and pulled America out of the economic recession that it was going through. Today, we witness the bursting economy of that country."
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