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    "id": 221681,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Odoyo",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Ochieng Odoyo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have just been reminded that, indeed, the issue that we do have water running from Mt. Kenya all the way to Lake Victoria but, unfortunately, that water never seems to get halfway down. It is being drank by all the people who live in Mt. Kenya. Why is that happening? That will be a subject which, I hope, at the appropriate time, we shall discuss, on the continued over-drinking of water by these mountain people who have finished it for those of us in the lowlands. We do not seem able to get any drinkable water from these people. I urge the Minister for Water and Irrigation to, please, find a way for the people of the lowlands like us to also find water to drink. These people are greedy! They are finishing this water! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the Kenya Airports Authority, there are big pointers that fire-fighting equipment was fraudulently bought. Why was it fraudulently bought? Indeed, there is evidence from those of us who have had the opportunity to travel far and wide; not only as the Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs when I was there, but also in my private capacity as a businessman and as a consultant in PriceWaterHouseCoopers and other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). That is the case of fraudulent acquisition of fire fighting equipment; second hand fire fighting equipment were bought from a third-world country, repainted and probably sold at four times the price of buying a brand new one from Germany. This outward and downward theft of public coffers is the reason why Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia are there and we are here. Secondly, Vision 2030 has not addressed that particular problem. I, as an economist, know that the trickle down theory will not work. The emphasis on growth alone is not necessarily the solution. The magic figure that, if we grow at six per cent, will guarantee re-election, I assure you that, indeed, like the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India, when the economy was growing at eight per cent but was voted out of office, this Government will come to realize that, indeed, the local"
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