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    "id": 1375473,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, the cost of living is one of the matters that we dealt with at length. There were many proposals that were submitted to us by many stakeholders. As I said while moving the Affordable Housing Bill, on the question on how to help our economy recover, we have an opportunity for aggressive investment in huge infrastructural projects. We engaged with economists of repute. This includes Society for International Development (SID) that submitted to the Committee that after World War II, even developed countries like the Federal Republic of Germany had an aggressive investment in huge infrastructural projects to help the economy recover. Those of us who subscribe to the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto submit before NADCO that part of that endeavour is this housing agenda. I am glad that even our colleagues in the Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party, including the former Prime Minister, agree that housing is an agenda that is critical to our Republic at this particular time. Additionally, there were many good proposals by the Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party. In fact, we were able to adopt 90 per cent of what they submitted before NADCO, including some of the levies that touch on the cost of fuel in the country. We also had points of divergence on principle. We respectfully agreed that some of their proposals touched on the Azimio la Umoja–One Kenya Coalition Party Manifesto, especially on consumption subsidies. We were able to push our case and agree that on the question on consumer subsidies, they allow the Government of the day to implement the manifesto they sold to the people of Kenya. Our manifesto had nothing to do with consumer subsidies but had everything to do with production subsidies. I am glad that today, months after the very heated engagement that we had at NADCO, including some like Hon. Eugene Wamalwa who pretended to walk away in the last minute... I say ‘pretending’ because he was part of the engagements in NADCO up to the very last meeting on Friday before the actual signing. When he excused himself to travel to Kinshasa, he had indicated that he would come back to sign the Report the day after. I thank all the Members of NADCO because they all signed except Hon. Eugene Wamalwa. On the question of prices of unga, I am glad that today as we engage in this Report, no one, not even my colleagues in Azimio-La-Umoja-One Kenya Alliance, refers to the cost of"
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