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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embakasi East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Babu Owino",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Chairman, before I proceed, I would like you to just give me two minutes. I will not be able to prosecute whatever I want to prosecute in only 30 seconds. Hon. Temporary Chairman, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to educate my fellow Members of Parliament on this matter. In economics, there are three types of goods. First, there are private goods, which are consumed by one party at a time. For example, housing, cell phones and even food. Second are public goods like roads and air/clean environment. Please, let me just prosecute my point. I am not violent on this, because I want it to stick in your mind. Third, there are merit goods. These are goods which the Government must encourage us to consume, such as education and health. Therefore, it is not the role of the Government to provide private goods such as housing to its citizens. We have been told that the main aim of providing houses is to eradicate slums. If we encourage provision of houses in urban centres, more slums will sprout. We will create what we call in economics “the dual economy”, where we have the rural economy and the urban economy. Therefore, there will be a high crime rate because people will be moving from rural areas to urban areas to get houses."
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