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    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I want to declare that I am a Member of APNAC, which is not only an organisation of sitting Members of Parliament, but also former Members of Parliament like Hon. Musikari Kombo, whom I want to recognise. I also want to thank my Chairman, Hon. Shakeel Shabbir, for the good work he has been doing in APNAC. He is a long-time serving Chairman of APNAC since the 11th Parliament when I knew him. In the 12th Parliament and now the 13th Parliament, he is still our Chairman. Hon. Shakeel has steered this Caucus very well. We can credibly say APNAC is a very resourceful organisation and Members of this House can get capacity building in terms of providing better oversight to various institutions. We are not just talking about corruption in terms of stealing. There is also corruption in terms of how various organisations are run. There is moral corruption in terms of how we organise our parties. There is moral corruption on how we engage with each other. I support the President in the efforts he is putting up in fighting corruption; beginning today, the President has said that all M-Pesa agents should only go to one M-Pesa account which is monitored by the National Treasury. That implies that all other M-Pesa accounts giving Government services cease from today and we will only have one. That is a very big effort in the right direction. This morning in State House, the President made a commitment when Cabinet Secretaries were signing performance contracts. We expect they will be able to live and deliver on those services. These are services that Kenya Kwanza promised wananchi during campaigns. They gave them commitments. This is not just a commitment between the President and Cabinet Secretaries. It is between the Government of William Ruto and Kenyans. With the efforts that the Government has put in place, we can now see that inflation is coming down. Yesterday, I was in Chepchoina in my constituency in Trans Nzoia County and there are a lot of crops such as maize that wananchi have grown based on the fertiliser subsidy of Ksh3,500 that the Government gave. We expect the subsidy to come down so that the price of fertiliser will be Ksh2,500. This year, farmers in Trans Nzoia expect a bumper harvest. They told me that they do not expect other people to start demanding that they sell their produce at a throw away price. We want to sell at a good market price. We have never asked our brothers from other regions, especially from Nyanza Region, who fish, to sell us fish at a throw away price. We have never carried sufurias on our heads to demand that fish prices go down. They should not carry"
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