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    "id": 240779,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion very strongly. I have just come from the Republic of South Africa, which, for all intents and purposes, is a very dry nation. In fact, water availability in South Africa is much worse than ours. July 26, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2369 South Africa is prone to droughts and veld fires are very frequent. Whatever misgivings or grievances we may have against the apartheid regime, and we have many, we know that apartheid capital was made on the backs of black people whose wages were never increased for about a century. However, what is certain about the Republic of South Africa is that their exploitation was put to use. The infrastructure in South Africa is perfect. In fact, if you are in a bus in South Africa, they serve tea and coffee and you will never run the risk of their tea or coffee tumbling on you. Try serving tea or coffee on the Kenyan roads and you will go to the laundry every time you board a vehicle. The infrastructure in this country, after so many years of colonial exploitation; the KANU Government exploitation, now complicated by a creature called NARC(K) has put this country to dire problems. If you look at the potential for domestic savings in this country, it is enormous. When I was the Chairman of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) in 1994, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) had a pensions fund of about Kshs12 billion. Within a matter of five years, those billions of shillings had dwindled to nothing. The NSSF was in the red. Pension funds in this country have been a tremendous source of domestic savings, but they have been put to nought. As I speak now, the Republic of South Africa has a pensions fund of about US$100 billion, which they are putting into investments locally. When the African National Congress (ANC) took over in 1994, they never asked for a loan from the World Bank because they had money that had been saved during the apartheid years. I am saying this because we cannot discuss the issue of famine relief and drought if we do not examine how our resources are used. We must understand that we can conquer drought and famine by using our resources properly. However, at the rate we are moving, whenever we face a problem of governance, we create a political party to escape into it without realising that what this Government needs to have done, was to properly manage a national democratic fund that NARC was, so as to use the resources of this country for national salvation. However, they are now celebrating, not realising that this is putting this nation into more problems. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, food aid and relief is something that the"
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