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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chepkitony",
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        "legal_name": "Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony",
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    "content": "because paraffin is widely used all over the country. Its price has gone up by a similar amount or even more and it has affected ordinary Kenyans. Although the economy is said to be improving, the ordinary mwananchi has not benefitted from it. This increase of petroleum prices will make the lives of ordinary Kenyans very difficult. We also know that petroleum products are also used to generate electric power. Our tarrifs are already very high and with the increase in fuel prices, electricity generating firms will incur higher generation costs which will definitely be passed onto electricity consumers like industries and ordinary wananchi . So, an increase in petroleum products is inflationary because it will affect everything, including transport costs. Already transport charges have gone up and the salary increases for civil servants which this Government has proposed will not benefit them because they will be eroded by this inflation which has been brought about by the increase in the prices of petroleum products. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, an area where the Minister did well was reducing the wastage of resources in Government departments, including the Cabinet, Assistant Ministers and senior Government officials. He did well to reduce the number of vehicles given to the Government departments. There has been wastage because you find a Minister moving around with three to four chase cars just to reflect his or her power. That type of lifestyle is not conducive to our economic growth since it is wasteful. It is a good decision to reduce the number of Government vehicles so that we can exercise a bit of stringency and utilise our resources in a proper manner. Agriculture is a very important sector in our economy and the Minister should have been very careful on the measures he took touching on this sector. The Sugar Development Levy which the Minister introduced on sugar-cane will discourage farmers from producing the cane. Already the cost of sugar production is very high and it was very unnecessary to introduce the Sugar Development Levy on sugar-cane. It should have been introduced on the final product which is sugar, inclusive of imported sugar."
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