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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "by distributing it to more people. We will be wasting our time and dreaming to think that socio-economic rights are things we talk about. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let us work on getting money and making Kenyans rich. If Kenyans become rich, we do not even need legislation or socio-economic rights. They will have money in their pockets. They will not go for Higher Educations Loans Board (HELB) and go to school. They will pay for whatever they want to pay for. If we are trying to construct this country, but we coming up with policies that ensure people remain poor, then legislation like this becomes inevitable. It is inevitable where we are because since Independence, this country has been designed to exclude some people. All the people who have submitted here have talked about inequalities across the country. The designs that made this country unequal or made some people ‘more equal than others’, require this kind of legislation to contain this as an intervention or temporary measure, but not as the end game or destination. The end game must be to make every Kenyan rich. We must come up with policies that pull the masses out of poverty. That is the challenge that the Jubilee Government has."
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