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    "id": 36143,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/36143/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 140,
        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "This is a capitalist economy. It has been so since Independence and before. My history teaches me that it was never a capitalist nation. Before the colonialist came, Kisumu got its name because it would give food to the poor for free if there was famine on the other side. The African society does not believe in hunger. It does not believe that your neighbor can be hungry and you are eating. However, we have become Europeanized and capitalist. We have been told that we must be liberalized and have a free economy. Even Britain and America are not free economies. They control certain things by different levers. They subsidize certain goods and control their prices. I met some East Germans, who are now in the German Republic, and they were saying that it was better that they did not have freedom, but had food. That is what even the Chinese are saying. The 60 per cent of us are down because of fuel. Multinational companies are getting together with the Ministry officials and others to fool Kenyans that we have some sort of price rationalization. It is a con trick because they fix the price of fuel, but the fuel companies are the ones who lead the fixing. We want proper fuel price control and fixing. Price control should be there. We should fix a certain price and if the fuel companies are not prepared to provide the fuel, we are prepared to walk. The rich in"
}