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    "id": 51129,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we all know that many countries have ensured that their constitutions are democratised to ensure that before expenditures are approved, parliament is incorporated. We are discussing this policy statement at a time when Kenyans have been adversely affected by the prevailing high prices of fuel and essential commodities. I wish to say that even though the Government has belatedly, through this House, made proposals which are going to ease the suffering of the common man, that initiative has come a little late given that we have already experienced shortfalls which have resulted in a decline in the purchasing power of Kenyans. We need to be thinking and acting more proactively. I urge the Government not to be responding to such trends as emergencies when we already have had warnings early enough. We were warned about the weather conditions that we are experiencing today twelve months ago by the Meteorological Department. The drought has caught up with us, and we want to behave as if it can be treated as an act of God or an emergency or something which we could not foresee and put in place measures to ameliorate its effects."
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