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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government",
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        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
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    "content": "Finally, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the price of commodities is going up, particularly food commodities. We must take steps to reduce those prices. If we allow food prices to go up, we are sitting on a time-bomb. I have always said that, if the people who are internally displaced could be allowed to go back to their farms, I can assure this House that food prices will go down immediately. Those are the people who are planting tomatoes, maize, kales and other commodities. So, it is important that we encourage the people who are displaced to go back to their farms, if we have the interest of this country at heart. If we want the prices of food commodities to go down, we must encourage them. We must do all that we can to make sure that they go back. They could even be given the tents they are using as a temporary measure. They could even be given prefabricated houses so that they can go and start farming. If they do not do that, the food prices will continue to escalate and this is a time-bomb waiting to explode! You can joke with politics but, please, never joke with the stomachs of people! Never joke with the stomach of a April 30, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 801 person! A hungry person is an angry person! We must bring down the prices of foodstuffs. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support."
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