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    "id": 1229134,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1229134/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Sorry, not Jubilee, but Kenya Kwanza Government. I am sorry. I am unable to distinguish the two because the actors are the same. So, I am unable to distinguish Kenya Kwanza from Jubilee. The actors are the same, but the names are different. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Government must pull up its socks and put on the table credible policies and activities that can draw the masses out of poverty. If the Government does that, every person in this country will have within himself the capacity to realise the socio-economic rights without depending on the State. We know very well Kenya is not a welfare State neither is it a grand making institution. Nonetheless, it has an obligation to create the requisite environment for Kenyans to become rich. As I support this important Bill, I do so with the understanding that it is an intermediary measure. It is just to use the law to address what is called historical injustices and staff in some areas. However, after we get this Bill, I still call upon the Government to come up with a marshal plan of sorts for this country to pull us out of poverty; a plan that will make the rural and urban areas, especially the informal settlements, thrive. The Government should come up with a plan of creating more wealth and new wealth based on a resource-based leadership, whereby leadership looks at the resources that we have and comes up with a programme to transform those resources that are mainly under our feet in the soil. The plan needs to be the kind to convert the vast resources that this country has into wealth that can enter into the pockets of Kenyans so that we can have millionaires. Next time, the Kenya Kwanza Government makes its State of the Nation Address, I would like them to stand up and tell us how many millionaires it has created, for"
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