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    "id": 229651,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Corruption is not just a perception in this country. Corruption is real and we know it. Again, free advice: Action needs, at least, to be taken seriously against corruption and not to tell the President that it is a perception. Anglo Leasing was real; money was \"eaten\", the culprits have not yet been brought to book and we know it. Some of them are now back in the House and on the Front Bench. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the 400 licences which were supposed to be removed, why has it taken four years for this Government to understand that businessmen in the rural areas are suffering and we need to remove this? Do we have to be told here in this House that they are going to do it? Why do they not just do it and announce it when it has been done? This is coming to seek cheap publicity which is unnecessary. The Government should be doing things and then informing us. It needs to just give a directive. I know for a fact that the Government has not changed the procurement procedures; for example, in tendering for road construction. So, it is not only donor-funded projects that are taking 48 months before the contractor moves to site. Even the locally funded projects take the same time. I know it because I know that we have not adopted formally, \"design-and-build\" concept which would make it much more easier for us to conceive, design and commission projects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the economy having grown, I do not want to dispute figures. However, if the economy is truly improving, it needs to translate to better quality of life for the people of our country. If you go down to Kibera Village and tell them that the economy has improved, you will be lucky if they jeer you but most likely, they will stone you because their conditions have become worse. They were buying paraffin at Kshs38 per litre and it is now Kshs82 per litre. Unga was Kshs35 per kilo and now it is over Kshs55 per kilo. Matatu fares have gone up three times. They are having to walk from Kibera to the Industrial Area. The cost of cement has gone up and rents have also gone up. So, those fellows living in Kibera are worse off and today, they will tell you: \" Afadhali Nyayo !\" March 21, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 27"
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