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    "id": 246530,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. ole Ntimama",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "William Ronkorua ole Ntimama",
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    "content": "We must be very careful so that we do not divide this country into certain regions where some people are said to be citizens and some others are said to be subjects of the State. Everybody is a citizen of the State and this country. It is very evident that the Minister wants to divide this country by creating economic balkanization and to make other areas poor and others rich. That is a fact! We are going to resist that move because we have finished white colonialism and we are not going to have African colonialism in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say very clearly that, if the Government will continue like this, it might not continue to command any legitimacy in some of the areas like in the June 20, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1449 Rift Valley. They have shown us very clearly that we are being targeted directly. The zero-rating of wheat is targeting the Rift Valley Province! How do you remove duty on wheat and leave us without anything at all? We must be careful not to create economic balkanization because we are being targeted on this issue. The Minister must repeal the zero-rating of wheat. This is a very, very serious matter. This is economic marginalization, economic deprivation and political strangulation of the people of the Rift Valley. It is a fact! I do not have much time but I am going to say that this issue of wheat has been very highly publicized. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the growth rate of the economy by 5.8 per cent is not compatible with reality on the ground because poverty levels are astronomically high. Social indicators reveal that those people living below the poverty line are about 64 per cent. If you go to the outlying districts, the figure is about 84 per cent. The growth rate is, therefore, incompatible and inconsistent with the reality and the Government has been publicizing it, but it is not true. Maybe the people they are supporting are the rich."
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