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    "id": 250447,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. We should support this Motion. The Government said that it is controlling corruption. From the Anglo Leasing scandal alone, the Government saved Kshs31 billion. If the Government puts more effort, it can recover Kshs138 billion, which was swindled through the Goldenberg scam. That is a lot of money that we can give our people by reducing taxation. I am surprised that the Minister for Finance is not talking about any dividends as a result of managing corruption. The Government wants to support cartels in form of multinational companies. The companies have made it impossible for indigenous Kenyans to get into the oil market. In fact, they are syphoning a lot of money from this country. They are impoverishing this country. As you know, 46 per cent of the pump prices of petroleum oil is taxation, while 28 per cent is meant to give profits to multinational companies. Why can we not take the money and give it to Kenyans? Does the Minister believe that those people who trek from Kibera to look for jobs in industrial area have money and they choose to trek? They trek because they have no money. These people have to go into the forest in Kibera to fetch firewood so that they can cook food. We must give those people affordable kerosene so that when they trek from work, they can cook their food easily. If we do not do that, we will be unhealthy and that will cost us a lot of money in hospitals. The Government should avoid listening to the IMF and World Bank as it did in 1994 and liberalised our economic structures. We exposed ourselves and came under their control. With those few remarks I support."
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