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    "id": 1358046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ken Chonga",
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    "content": "promised many things by this Government. It was the expectation of every mama mboga, every bodaboda operator, and every other hustler that life would be better than it is today. If there is anything that mwananchi expected, that is what he wanted to read and understand from the Speech of the President. Hon. Deputy Speaker, let me tell you where the rain started beating us. The rain starting beating us when we passed a punitive Finance Bill in this House. We talked about it, we discussed it, we could see the weaknesses and some of the elements that were in that Bill, but there was nobody to hear because the numbers were less. The Finance Bill is the biggest cause of the cost of living today. On 8th November, Members of Parliament from the Government side were at State House. They expressed their concerns openly that they had become less popular because of the cost of living. That is something that is in this House’s domain. I am told what the President said is that ‘you do not need to be popular.’ Indeed, if they are unpopular, are they not feeling what the mwananchi is feeling on the ground? I was keenly listening to the Leader of the Majority Party and his Deputy and the kind of lies they were making to Kenyans. One of the reasons why the cost of living is not going to go down very soon is the cost of fuel in this country. You and I know very well that Kenya went into an arrangement of government-to-government with the Government of Saudi Arabia. Look at the players in this arrangement. First of all, if there is something that I can call a scam, this is the biggest scam. They are telling us that the cost of fuel is going up because of the war in Ukraine and Palestine. How come the cost of fuel is going down in Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda? What explanation can the President give on that observation? It is in public domain that the companies which were given the tender to bring fuel tied their hands in such a manner that when the cost of fuel goes down they cannot renegotiate these terms. You know very well that as long as the cost of fuel remains high, the cost of everything else in Kenya will remain high."
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