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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Chanzu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 11,
        "legal_name": "Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now talking about referral because deferral is a matter of postponing the problem. We are not saying that we want the referral right now, but until we have credible institutions in place to be able to deal with this matter. So, it is not a matter of changing positions like I heard it from the Press. Nobody is changing position. Yesterday, the Speaker in his welcome Speech talked about the economy growing at the rate of about 6 per cent. The President in his Speech talked of 5.4 per cent. Today when the Prime Minister was giving the Statement on the current state of the national economy, he talked about the economy growing at about 6 per cent. The majority of us come from rural constituencies. There are few of us who come from cities like Nairobi and so on. I go to my constituency quite a lot and I have not seen the trickledown effect of this so-called “growth”. The Prime Minister talked about cushioning wananchi against price hikes and so on. I have not seen that. I have not seen the specific measures the Government has put in place to cushion wananchi against these price hikes. I have not seen what measures the Government has put in place for ordinary wananchi to benefit from this so called “high growth rate of the economy”. So, if we just talk about what is happening in the stock market, where maybe there could be a few people who have kept a lot of money and they are able to speculate with it, then we think that is an indication of what the economy is, we are wrong. There are areas the Government needs to put in place and tell us specifically what they are doing to ensure that if there is a rise in the growth of the economy, wananchi are having direct benefit. If there are price hikes like the one that is taking place, and which is going to have a multiplier effect on the increase of prices in everything. Unfortunately because we do not have controls here, the people who deal in these stocks sell of commodities for household use and so on, take advantage. For one single shilling rise in fuel price, there is a 100 per cent increase in food commodities and so on. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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