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    "id": 120351,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Yinda",
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        "legal_name": "Edwin Ochieng Yinda",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I want to thank the hon. Ephraim Maina for the timely introduction of this Bill because this is really one of the most important Bills. It is what I would term, “the Bill for the people”. It is sad that in Kenya, we have many families who cannot afford even one meal a day for their families. Of course, if this continues, you understand that it is a situation that can easily result into a revolution, because a hungry population is a very dangerous population. I support this Bill fully and I feel that people should be able to afford, at least, two meals a day regardless of their position in society. The situation today is such that only the rich can afford three expensive meals a day and yet for the poor people even getting Kshs50 to spend on food a day is a problem. I support the price control on essential goods like unga and fuel. By controlling the price of fuel, the cost of transport will go down and the majority of Kenyans will be in a position to travel. At the moment, travelling is too expensive and one only needs to go to Mathare or Kibera and wake up at about 4.00 a.m., and you see the mass of people trekking into town. They are not doing that because they want to or they like it, rather it is because they cannot afford the transport. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a country where at one time, we were big growers of cotton. At the moment, the entire population consisting of our wives, daughters and sisters are specialist in wearing mitumbas . They do not wear mitumba because they like them. It is degradation for anybody to go and buy mtumba underpants, but our people are forced to do this because they cannot afford new clothes. The traders have been left on the loose and they want to make so much money in total disregard to the rest of the population that has been relegated to the dustbins."
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