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    "id": 1254522,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kamukunji, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Yusuf Hassan",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this particular debate. I represent a constituency in Nairobi with a substantial number of low-income earners. Many of them live below the poverty line. I am not talking about a constituency or a neighbourhood in a remote area of our country. It is only about one kilometre from this august House and also from the centre of power. It is important to put into context the fact that many of the children in Kamukunji have dreams like any other child in the country. They have a dream of living a better life, access good schools, good education, medical care and decent affordable housing. They do not currently benefit from many of those things. They also dream of a prosperous and better Kenya. Many aspects of this Finance Bill will allow us to fund the necessary infrastructure that we need, particularly the housing programme. The housing programme will be of great benefit to the people of Kamukunji because much of Kamkunji consists of slums, where people live in squalid conditions. It will also provide employment for the youths in my constituency, as well as help many traders in jua kali centres. We have the largest jua kali centre in the country and it can contribute to the development of this housing project."
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