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    "id": 1229491,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. From the word go, as a House, what we need to focus on when we are discussing agreements of this nature is to understand the philosophy behind these agreements. If you look at these agreements, they are heavily tilted in favour of the British, and even if you talk about the benefits that I have heard from my colleagues, where about 500 people are employed as casual labourers, they do not compare. Therefore, from where I sit, I think these agreements are an extension of colonial domination. The British continue to dominate us through some of these agreements by having their Army officers train in our land and they pretend to be giving us benefits. I heard the British High Commissioner say that since 2016, Britain has spent about Ksh5 billion in supporting this programme, and that this money has gone into benefitting the economy of Kenya. This amount is peanuts. As I support the adoption of this Report, in the future, let us as a House, look at the philosophy of some of these agreements and if we find that they are an extension of colonialism, we have to reject them. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have also listened to the Report that there is an addition on CSR being included as part of the Treaty. Do you need an agreement for you to support me? What we are simply saying is that now there is an agreement that the British should be allowed to do CSR. That is something that should be voluntary. If the British believe that this Agreement is good for them, then we need not remind them that CSR needs to be part of this Treaty. Therefore, we need to think beyond the peanuts that this Agreement is giving us in terms of employment of a few people."
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