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    "id": 254152,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will try my best. First, I would like to laud the President for a very focused Speech. It is a fact that the economy has been 358 PARLIMENTARY DEBATES April 5, 2006 growing. However, we have to make sure that the poor people in this country benefit from the economic growth. That is the next step that this Government must take. If they fail to do that, we will have problems like India had during her economic boom. The poor, who were the majority, were not benefiting and so the Government of the day was thrown out because the ordinary people were not benefitting. So, the next stage for this Government is to try to come up with policies that address the ordinary citizens. One of the most important thing is for the Government to focus on agriculture where most of our people are engaged in. Right now, the tea farmers are on strike because they have been earning very little from their produce. The sector that has been sustaining this country when all the other sectors were dead is now going down because the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is taking most of the money and the farmer is receiving nothing. It is high time that the Government focused on the tea, coffee, sugar and all other farming sectors. This is the backbone of our economy and this is where the ordinary citizen in this country will be touched. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government must also stop addressing the symptoms of our problems like trying to evict traders from the streets without addressing the problem of where they will get their livelihood. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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