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    "id": 36181,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": "The consumption of fuel is by the higher class. The rich classes are the ones who consume more fuel than poor people. So, if your aim is to help the poor people, do not give a general subsidy for everybody. Target the poor as the Government is doing. Make direct money transfer to them; we are now asking the sponsor of this Motion to, perhaps, come up with a Motion that directs the Government to upscale the mitigation measures to the poor people by giving them money directly. Give that poor man or widow in the village money in their pockets for them to spend it. Do not interfere with market forces and distort the market by attempting to say that you are doing it for the poor when you are actually trying to do it for Messrs. Lang’at, Pesa, and Sheikh Dor, who can afford it – the richer echelons of society like Members of Parliament can afford the subsidy."
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