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    "id": 274337,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kathuri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 38,
        "legal_name": "Emilio Mureithi Kathuri",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy, Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity after a big struggle. I also support this Motion and, while supporting it, I would like to take this opportunity to remind the Executive and, specifically, the Minister for Finance that we have gone on recess when the Finance Bill is yet to be approved. He knows why it has not been approved. There are some contentious issues and he should work on them now that we have given him a chance up to 17th April, 2012. He should note down all the interests of ordinary Kenyans. That is because, unfortunately, any one of us can become another ordinary Kenyan just like our predecessors. We have seen some of them being auctioned to the extent that they have become squatters. The issue of interest rates is not anything that can be taken for granted. I would expect the Minister to take this one month and exhaustively deal with that matter so that, all the instruments that are required to be put in place to ensure that the interest rates have gone down are applied in total. We should even encourage the Minister to think in terms of how he can encourage the banks to go the “fixed interest rates way”, and not the valuable interest rates way. That is because Kenyans are better off when they deal with a problem which they know, rather than where they are going to be subjected to arbitrary increases now and then. Madam Temporary Deputy, Speaker, there is also the issue of coffee auctions. While it is not in the docket of the Minister for Finance but, east or west, whether the"
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