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    "id": 1357941,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1357941/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "he took charge. He came to settle bills of over Ksh60 billion on account of fuel subsidies and from Ksh4 billion to Ksh8 billion on account of consumption subsidies, geared towards subsidising maize flour and sugar, in the last two months of the last regime. Hon. Members, will remember these measures were taken in the run-up to elections. There has been a clamour for the re-introduction of these subsidies. I am glad that the President went to great lengths to explain to the people of Kenya the difficulty of entrenching consumer subsidies vis-a-vis having a system with sustainable production subsidies. As the President stated, it was left to his regime or administration to settle bills of consumption subsidies effected in the last eight weeks to elections. These subsidies were geared towards enticing the people of Kenya to vote in a particular way. It is one thing to seek political popularity and another to do the right thing for posterity and future generations of this country."
}