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    "id": 49469,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just wish to get a clarification from the Minister for Energy. All the problems that he has outlined are not new. These problems have been there for a very long time. I think what disappoints some of us is that the Minister complains that he cannot do some of the things because there is no money. Really, this is a subject for the Cabinet, because Parliament cannot help him there. Allocation of money is done by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance in consultation with the other Ministries. Therefore, as far as I am concerned, the problems are already well known. The solutions are also known, but the problem is implementing those solutions. We know the breakdown or how we arrive at the pump price. The crude oil price is the beginning point, and the Minister has no control over that, except that he has to look for cheaper sources of crude oil. The refinery is a function of what happens with the Kenya Oil Refinery. How efficient can you make it, so that the final refined products are at the cheapest possible price? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, regarding the storage, you have told us that you have a problem because storage is lacking and, therefore, you must get investments to increase storage to assure stability for emergencies and so on. Transportation is the pipeline. Then there is the retailing and you have the margins that the oil companies put there. So---"
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