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    "speaker_name": "Dadaab, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Farah Maalim",
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    "content": "I know you are a member of the so-called hustler movement in this country. If you do not deal with these things firmly and effectively, if we do not come to this House with proper land reforms… We have 20 million acres of land that was grabbed by the political elite, which land can be given out to 5 million or 10 million Kenyans and that can be a very powerful means of production. It is not there. If you are not going to do it, they are going to say that they just needed this so that they can capture power and go back to business as usual. Kenyans of yesterday and Kenyans of today are different. These people need to be tamed right now. Go back to Kenya Airways and find out how it was bankrupted. Tell us it was so-and-so, say, a Minister, the Deputy President, or the President responsible for the mess. Then we can ask them, as Kenyans, to return the money. The same thing is also happening with the IPPs. How do you contract IPPs and the only thing you do is pay them for capacity instead of consumption? I was a young man when the East African Community came down. We were told Kenya is a man-eat-man society. We have been a man-eat-man society for far too long – for over 60 years. It is said 67 per cent of Kenyans out there cannot get three square meals in a day. There are poor Kenyans who are professionals and technocrats working in all the sectors in this country, but they cannot afford to pay for power today or send their children to good schools. It is because we have privatised everything. The elite also went for the education sector. I grew up in this country when the best schools were Government schools. Today, we do not have that because the political elite of the day invested in education, destroyed the public sector, and improved the private sector. I grew up in this country when my own dad, in 1966, had an accident and stayed in King George VI, now Kenyatta National Hospital, for three months. It had just changed the name and at that time it was one of the best medical facilities, literally in the country. The political elite went for the health sector and because of that we have problems in the public sector in terms of health. Until such a time that the individual Kenyan will get… Hon. Temporary Speaker, I plead with you to give me just two more minutes?"
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