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    "id": 54428,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kinyanjui",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Roads",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Lee Maiyani Kinyanjui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for granting me the opportunity to participate in this very useful debate. Allow me to say that I am very disappointed. It has been the case in this country and we know, as politicians, when we go to any funeral, the first thing is to hijack the funeral, take charge and it becomes a political gathering. Today in Kenya, families are going hungry. Children are going to sleep without food. As the schools open next term, because food is a key component, especially in boarding schools, we expect the fees to go up. Kenyans will have to suffer. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the Ministry where I serve, we all know that petroleum is a key component in the contract sums that we agree on. When the fuel cost goes up, we expect that the cost of all the contracts that we give will go up. Kenyans will have to cough more money. I am, therefore, saying that, as Members of Parliament, Kenyans expect solutions and not accusations. Allow me to say that it is extremely important that we appreciate that the fuel crisis we are facing as a nation today is not only in Kenya. We have a similar problem in Tanzania, Uganda and all over the world. The cause of the increase in fuel prices is the crisis we have in the Arab world. This is not within the province of the Government, or the Minister for Energy. The area where the Minister, or the Government, can do something is from the point at which the oil gets to Kenya. I want to thank the Member for Rarieda for highlighting the issue of storage in Kenya. Most of the time, we have fuel arriving at the port in Mombasa and a ship stays for up to two weeks without offloading because of lack of storage. The effect is that we have to pay the demurrage and the same is passed on to the consumers by way of added cost."
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