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    "id": 1354601,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Taveta, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Bwire",
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    "content": "I want you to take a moment, close your eyes and imagine your two or three children in your completely flooded house, and you only have a mkeka and you cannot sleep. It is painful. I agree with the speaker who has just spoken before me that sometimes we forget the moment we get into these positions. When we were passing the Finance Bill and increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) from 8 per cent to 16 per cent, we were assured that we would have a lot of dams constructed everywhere in the country. When we were passing the Housing Levy, we were assured of houses. When we were increasing the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and other things, including the cost of an identity card, we were told that things would change. When foreign travel for Members of Parliament and other Government officials was cancelled, we were told that we were doing so in the best interest of the country. In fact, I was in one of the meetings where we were told that we had saved close to Ksh5 billion as a result of the cancellation of foreign travel for Members and other public officers. Where is this money? We are not asking for too many things. Repair the roads so that they can be motorable. For instance, the Taveta-Illasit Road in my constituency is the connection between farmers so that they can take their produce to the market. We have women who have sacrificed all their savings to cultivate tomatoes. However, they cannot take them to the market because the roads are impassable."
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