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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you. I have been seated waiting for this Report since morning. I support the Report with certain prayers. I just want to go to a lane where we, as Kenyans, feel so disgruntled. Why is construction damn expensive? Why is buying a wire so expensive? People are screaming they cannot construct their houses today. You will find a Kenyan seated in an office somewhere, and that Kenyan just decides to take us somewhere. Kawanjiku is telling us that even this House did not go through that exemption policy to allow one company to provide us construction wires in Kenya. It is very sad. It is not just this. That is why we pass good laws in this House. Everything changes the moment they go to the Executive. The policy on education changed. We are now in some model that we are wondering about whether we passed it in this House. What happened to the old model? We have not finished that one and we are on another about health. It is the same challenges. Again, we are wondering why we passed it. Kenyans need insurance when they cannot even access that health now. There are many companies in this country yet one must import every of these. Let me tell you that the ones owned by Kenyans are suffering most. It is unfair when you exempt some from billions of shillings and leave others struggling. I hope we are not saying this so that my friends at Devki Steel Mills Limited become beneficiaries again. I know they follow the law. However, let us not also monopolise and find ourselves under one company again. That is the way we have monopolised the one for the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF). We can buy equipment, one or four, and it is just one person supplying. The health sector is about to do the same thing, like the company called the Blue Nile Rolling Mills did to us. It should never be. It should not happen. If we want to be serious as the National Assembly before we go for recess in December, we must ensure that we have clarified and done our best to the education model and the SHIF. We should go for recess to next year knowing that Kenyans close with us having done the right thing in this House. Let us look at recommendations 22, 23 and 24 and listen to what the East African Community Customs Management Act of 2004 provides and all that. When you come to Recommendation 27, we are saying that the SOFA that is the framework used to bring this exemption was not published in the gazette notice. It was not forwarded to Parliament for consideration and approval as required by Articles 10, 118, 201, and 210(a) of the Constitution. You will still find that the officers who did this are the same going to do these other things. That is why the President is in big trouble. As we always say, it is not the President. It is we that Kenyans have given the privilege to be in offices that are auctioning our country day and night. You are the technical person to prepare the document yet you are expecting the President to read every document word by 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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