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    "id": 48117,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/48117/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Namwamba",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
        "slug": "ababu-namwamba"
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to applaud this House for standing up tall today to actualize Article 28 of the Constitution on human dignity that guarantees every Kenyan dignity and Article 43 that guarantees the people of this country a raft of social economic rights to make their existence better. We are just about to establish a platform that can enable this country to critically look at this challenge and offer tangible solutions. I also thank the ODM for sponsoring this Motion and the Members for rallying around this Motion notwithstanding our political affiliations. As I close this Motion, I want to ask the Government that even as we prepare to go into the business of interrogating these issues, to take immediate measures to make sure that the projected increase in fuel of Kshs6 in the next few days does not happen. Let the Government do whatever it takes to ensure that the cost of petrol, diesel and kerosene does not inch any higher than it already has. Secondly, I want to urge the Government that out of the 2.8 million bags currently held in the strategic grain reserve, to release, at least, one million bags, to relieve the mounting pressure where millers are already warning of increase in the cost of maize meal and then use the money from that to import another one million bags to replace that in the strategic grain reserve. Thirdly, there are four hundred bags of maize that the Government is holding for famine relief. I urge the Government to release 200 bags to those families that are feeding on cats and other unimaginable delicacies, so that we can forestall the crisis that is building up across the country. We are about to establish a Committee that hopefully will look into issues of cost cutting, social safety nets like the meal vouchers that we have in France, affordable energy and a better minimum wage that will enable us to move from rhetoric to action. I have every belief that with this Committee in place, together with the Government, this House will become part of the solution and not part of the problem. I am confident that this House will not hesitate to share in the pain of Kenyans when it comes to reducing the number of foreign travel and any expenditure that this House can cut. I want to believe that this House will stand tall to be counted and to share in carrying the burden of the people in this matter. With that, I wish to move."
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