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    "id": 1357721,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President talked very heavily on the issue of farm inputs. The concept and argument have always been you subsidise production and not consumption. It is, probably, a brilliant concept. The reality is that when you say you have subsidised fertilizer such that the prices have come from Kshs6,500 to Kshs2,500 - which is a fact yet - I have called everywhere in Migori County and fertilizer does not go for Kshs2,500 anywhere. I will tell you the reason why Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale--- Secondly, we had Senate Mashinani in Turkana County. We went to a place called Katilu, an irrigation farm. None of those farmers are getting fertilizer for Kshs2,500. When you decide to say you are subsidising fertilizer and constantly the cost of petrol and fuel keeps getting higher the other inputs get affected, including the cost of vehicles going to Lokichar to take fertilizer. That is why there is an increased price of fertilizer despite the fact that you claim subsidies. In any case, fertilizer is not the only subsidised input that the country needs. The people from the Lake - Migori County where I come from - Siaya and Homa Bay counties are serious fish farmers. When the cost of fuel is high, it affects them directly. As I speak, the Kenya shilling is performing extremely poorly against other currencies. Uganda has decided to buy its oil directly and not through Kenya. When the former President Uhuru was leaving office, the Kenya shilling was trading at Ksh32 against the Uganda shilling. Right now, it is at Ksh25. The Tanzanian Shilling is now stronger than it was then. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale must know that the people who grow tea in this country are having it auctioned in Tanzania instead of what was happening in Mombasa County. The economy is doing badly. For the purposes of the one man who believes in God - President Ruto and his troops like Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale - the Bible in John 21.3 says that when Jesus Christ had been arrested, crucified and died, his disciples felt broken because they had nothing else to do. They went back to fish. On the third day when Jesus rose from the dead, he came back and told them that when you are most broken that is when God is near you. We are telling the people of Kenya today. Ruto has broken our spirit, the future of our children, hopes and dreams of our people. Even if he insists through speeches and frivolous point of orders, the country will move forward because now, as a people, our hands are in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hands are in the hands of God."
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