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    "id": 41239,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Lands",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to support this Motion and make it very clear that there was a moment last week, or even previously, when I thought that, with the hard economic times, the Government was not going to address the plight of the needy members of society. In fact, the truth be told – and I want to make this very clear – there was a meeting at which I said that I may join the Back Bench in reacting negatively to the Budget process, because it was my assumption that there were certain actions that were taken that did not indicate that we are alive to the plight of the Kenyan people. But since then, with the overall economic situation in the world and more, particularly, facing countries in what I may call, for lack of a better term, the Third World, we are undergoing very hard economic times. I think the Minister has tried, in the circumstances, to address the issues that are of concern to the public, including the plight of the less fortunate members of our society. I think it could have been better, but the Minister, at the end of the day, has limited resources and Kenya is not very well endowed by way of natural resources like oil and minerals. So, that should not be lost to us. Each one of us should ask what he or she is doing to make sure that Kenya belongs to the league of the emerging economies of the world that are competitive. For that reason, I think the overall perspective of the Statement that was made and the documents that have been committed for the Committee to look at, is to make the Kenyan society and economy more competitive. Unless we go out there and do this work ourselves, Kenya cannot grow."
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