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    "id": 228471,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M'Mukindia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kirugi Joseph Laiboni M'Mukindia",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Today, Kenya prides herself as a shining star in East Africa. If we are not careful, in ten years, we shall be the beggar of East Africa. Unless we change, work harder and engage other East African member countries more closely, we shall be the beggar of East Africa, and that is for sure! That is because the other countries in East Africa are better endowed with resources than we are up to this point in time as far as we know. They have more rainfall, better soils, you name it, they have it: Minerals, oil et cetera. What does Kenya have? Yet Kenyans are not taking this as a major opportunity to extend relationships to go beyond just East Africa to, may be, Sudan. As we speak today, the Minister has not posted a Trade Office in Juba. And why not? What does it cost the Government to have a Trade Officer in Juba? We have not sent a Trade Officer to eastern Congo. How much does it cost to have a Trade Officer in eastern Congo? We are joking! We can talk and talk, but we are joking! Therefore, we are not, really, doing what we want to do. Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to come to issues that relate to the areas we represent, we have issues of squatter settlement. I am aware that Mr. G.G. Kariuki is likely to bring to this House a Bill on Squatter Settlement. I want to urge the Government to support the Bill once it is brought here, because we have pockets of people who were working in forests under the so-called \"Shamba System\". When they were \"kicked\" out of the forests, they started living on the roadside and in mushy areas. They are the poorest of the poor. So, as a caring leadership, we ought to be ashamed of the fact that we \"kicked\" these people out of the forests ostensibly to protect the forest, but what are we doing about them? I have in mind a village called Mashaka in Meru Central Constituency. It is a serious issue. It is almost becoming an insecurity issue. We do not want another Mungiki sect to start in Meru or somewhere else. Once 300 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 3, 2007 people are desperate, they can do virtually anything. These people are coming to that level. There must be a programme by the Government as a whole---"
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