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    "id": 209142,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 340,
        "legal_name": "Peter Ochieng Odoyo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the price of petroleum in this country, for example, in Nairobi, is very expensive. If you go to Nakuru, it is cheap. In Narok, which does not even have a pumping station, it is cheap. If you go to Kisumu, which has a pumping station, the price is high! The price of petroleum products in Kisumu is very, very high and yet, we have a Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) pumping facility, just like Nakuru. But, as an economist, why should prices in Nairobi be higher than those in Nakuru, which is far away from where petroleum is coming from, which is Mombasa? Why should petrol prices in Nakuru be lower than petrol prices in Mombasa? We need some element of reasoning! In my humble and educated mind as an economist, it simply means that those oil companies have a certain wide margin latitude; which means that they are overpricing their products. Indeed, they can play around with the prices as they wish because they are making such a huge margin! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the question we, therefore, put to the Minister is: Why is the Ministry sleeping? Are they in a diesel-driven train moving so nicely? They do not care about how the wananchi are suffering. The price of mafuta taa - kerosene--- Wananchi are suffering! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to support the Minister's budget reluctantly."
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