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    "id": 1229705,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1229705/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have been waiting for long. Thank you very much. Let me begin by saying that the success of this Government is success to all of us Kenyans. That is true. I am happy that the Government has acknowledged that every Kenyan across the divide is suffering because of the high cost of living. I am not here to apportion blame to anybody. We need to find solutions. I am here to give solutions because the Leader of the Majority Party has encouraged us to give the Government ideas on measures we can take to fix this country socially, economically, and politically. Number one, the Government is ‘eating’ itself through roadside declarations. Every time the Deputy President opens his mouth, he says, “We cannot do this-and-that.” That is eroding investors’ confidence in this country. Number two, stop creating a bloated Executive. Appointing 50 Chief Administrative Secretaries will not sort out this problem. We need less than 20 of them because they are constitutionally not empowered to do anything or add anything economically. Number three, stop unnecessary travel expenditures that we have been witnessing of late yet we claim that we do not have money to pay salaries. The other issue would be to introduce tax incentives to woo investors to come to this country. We should never and should not even tolerate delaying salaries of civil servants even for a day. These civil servants have mortgages and loans to pay. If we do so, we are going to erode the confidence in institutions that give our civil servants loans and mortgages. The last thing the Government should do is to tell us to brace ourselves for tough times. Instead, they should give us solutions on how they will pay salaries timely. Let us fix our economy. While giving Kenya Kwanza time to do this, we also need to come and reason together. Demonstrations have really caused a mess in this country. We need to agree on the ideas we have given. One, open the servers so that we fix the country politically."
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