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    "speaker_name": "Mr. C. Kilonzo",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Mutavi Kilonzo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to disappoint my close friends and say that I support this Motion. I will go the way of hon. Okemo. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you must not make decisions when you are very annoyed, because if you do you will end up making the wrong decisions. However, we are dealing with an “animal” called Kenyan Government, which has refused to listen. So, we must tell the Government to its face where it has failed. We must tell them that this Motion of adjournment does not mean that they have gotten their way. On the issue of interest rates, I want to give the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance a practical case of women from my constituency and a neighbouring constituency called Masinga, who, in the year 2009 demonstrated and went to the residence of one of the senior people in those constituencies. They complained that they had stopped sleeping at home because of auctioneers, and that the banks had refused to re-negotiate their loans. The women were saying that they wanted to pay but they wanted the loans re-negotiated. It was through my intervention and talking to senior managers of the banks and convincing the CEOs that those loans should be re-negotiated, that the women got reprieve. It has reached a stage where banks are not sensitive. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is, therefore, the responsibility of us in Government and we, the Legislature, to ensure we make the necessary laws. We will then make sure that the Executive arm of the Government does its work, failure to which this House will be left with no choice but to take action. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to tell the Government that; we have told you and you have heard. It is up to you. By the time we come back if you will not have made the right decision, then it will be too bad for you. With regard to the cost of living, I sat on the Parliamentary Select Committee on the cost of living. We met the technocrats of this Government and all of them are knowledgeable. What we do not seem to understand is where the disconnect is. You have all the solutions, but you are unable to implement them. Why is it that the price of fuel goes up by Kshs10, but it comes down by, say, Kshs3 or Kshs4? It was after the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communication and Information, Eng. Rege, threatened to scrap the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) that they reduced the price of fuel by Kshs5 only. They had been saying that the price of fuel had"
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