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    "id": 1451709,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1451709/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "We have a big problem right now in this country. We are not able to sustain the population. The reason we are not able to sustain the population is because of corruption. We are not a socialist country. We are a capitalist country. If we have to pay for every expense in this country, then we have to increase taxes because that is how it works. There is no two ways about it. There is no need to increase taxes if the ones we collect are not accounted for. This is an absolutely beautiful time in our country. Sadly, it has cost the lives of many of our youths. Their blood should not have been shed in vain. We should see a shift in how we move this country from poverty to prosperity, from disunity to unity, from a lack of accountability to good governance. If we do that, then we will be a Parliament that is remembered not only today, but tomorrow. But if we come back and it is business as usual, then I regret moving from the private sector to the political sector. It would have been a failure in my decision to join the leadership to do good for my country. Let us all put Kenya first in everything because we do not have another country. We only have Kenya. My appeal to the Gen Zs is to give the President a chance. And my appeal to Raila Amolo Odinga is this: Can we please join the Government? Some of the things that you had in your Manifesto were amazing. You had an amazing way to deal with unemployment. You had an amazing way to deal with job creation through clusters. If those ideas that you had are given to William Ruto and his Government, we should forge ahead. I would also like to urge the President to look at the Gen Zs. Let us have a few Gen. Zs or let us have a Gen. Z desk in every Ministry, like we had a NEPAD desk, so that the Gen. Zs can be part and parcel of driving this nation forward. For me, it is wrong for us to not consider some positions for them. They might show us another way of doing things. As I talk to them, I know that the passion they have is because of unemployment and lack of opportunity. They have a different way of dealing with situations than we do as their parents. For the remaining positions, let us have a few Gen. Zs. Let them recommend people. They cannot remain leaderless and faceless. They have to come out and say: “These are the people we are recommending for these Ministries and let the President consider them.” I pray that together, we can make a difference to not just in Kenya, but the region because we lead by example. Thank you."
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