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    "id": 229055,
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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Rutto",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Kipkemoi Rutto",
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    "content": "March 28, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 211 But the economy that the President kept reminding us about tends to favour the rich, in my opinion, in the sense that the rich are now having more money in their pockets than the poor. For instance, the cost of fuel, as an hon. Member has mentioned here before, went up very many times. The cost of fuel affects the cost of every other thing; the cost of sugar, transport, clothes, shoes and all the basic needs that the ordinary person gets access to. The ordinary person in the village does not feel that improvement in the economy as we were told here. In fact, if anything, the poor are poorer than before and the rich are now richer. I would like to echo what another hon. Member said earlier that, I am afraid we are developing a class society where the rich will continue to be rich and the poor will continue to be poor. There is need to distribute income evenly. If the economy has really improved, then there is need to distribute income fairly so that the benefits trickle down even to the rural person. We have been told that some of the benchmarks of an improved economy is, for instance, the increase of business in the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE), increase in construction business, mobile phone communication, horticultural production, maize and dairy production. The question that we need to ask ourselves is this: Who controls those businesses that we are talking about? It is not the ordinary person! It is the rich! It is you and other people who are rich! In other words, at the end of the day, the gains that we make in horticulture, mobile phone communication technology, dairy farming and so on do not trickle down to the poor. We need, as leaders, to check that the benefits are finally distributed to the poor. Look at the agricultural inputs, they are very expensive! With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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