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    "id": 48101,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Ndeti",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wavinya Ndeti",
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to thank the hon. Minister for donating time to me and also hon. Ababu Namwamba for bringing this Motion. I have said time and again that people do not plan to fail, but they fail to plan. Some of the issues that are coming up now such as the high cost of living are because of lack of planning or proper implementation. If the Government planned and implemented whatever it planned, then some of these issues like the price of things being very high would not arise. Look at the situation at the moment, the rains have failed. It is only raining in Nairobi. I just came from Ukambani the other day. People are almost dying of hunger. I saw on television the other day women in Turkana holding guns while they should be taking care of their children. They were trying to go out there to fend for food. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, is that what we want for our people? Is that what we want for our women in this country? At the end of the day, when the cost of living goes up, women and children suffer the most. Men also get stressed because they have to go out and look for money to buy food. Most homes end up breaking as a result of that. We, as a Government, need to look into these issues. First things first, we must invest in agriculture - irrigation and farming. If we do that, we will be able to feed our people. Most of the problems will not be there. The other factor is to look for alternative sources of energy. If we did that, we would not mind whether fuel prices go up or down. It will still affect us, but not that much. We should also liberalize the importation of fuel. Why do we have a few people importing fuel? Anybody should be allowed to import fuel and sell it in this country. That would end some of the problems that we have. We need to liberalize the importation of fuel in this country. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have been talking about the control of prices. If we invested in the agricultural sector, we would not have to control prices because we would have enough food for everyone in this country. Some of the problems we have would not arise. Let us get our facts right. Thank you very much."
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