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    "id": 1441443,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rarieda, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Otiende Amollo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I oppose this Bill. I have listened to the Chairman on the raft of proposed amendments, which is too little too late. First of all, I have recorded 120 reasons for the rejection of this Bill. It is sufficient that the professional associations, the church, civil society and Kenyans have spoken to this. There are legal, financial, economic and humanitarian reasons for rejecting this Bill. More fundamentally, it is a moral question. This regime has lost the capacity for shame. It does not regard Kenyans. I was tempted to attack some entities like the church and some ambassadors because they are the ones at the forefront of supporting this regime. However, I will forgive them and tell them that it is good they have realised the error of their ways. This regime needs to understand the etymology of governance. The whole idea of governance is that the people voluntarily relinquish some of their rights and liberties for the Government to protect them. In this case, we have a Government that does not want to protect its citizens but, rather, decimate them. We must reject this idea. It is important to understand that a budget is made for the people. Traditionally, it is the people who must be listened to. We have a draft Bill whose origins are essentially the Bretton Woods Institutions - the IMF and, secondarily, the World Bank. They were not made to further the interests of developing countries. They were established in 1944 to essentially protect the war-ravaged countries which were all the developed countries. When they come and give us prescriptions, they must be taken with a pinch of salt. In the 1980s and 1990s, they gave us the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs). It is only when Kenya, like other countries, rejected those SAPs that we started going somewhere. Now we are in a situation where the Bretton Woods institutions have come back in full swing in the face of the Executive. This must be rejected. It is important to understand that this Bill does not protect and is not in the interest of Kenyans. Some people are fear-mongering that if we reject it, we will be in a crisis. We will The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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