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    "id": 732434,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "the President wants Kenya--- We are not stupid. This is such that when Hon. Duale talks about a successful economy, maybe, I can take him to my village, give him my phone for one day and get to see my people who are suffering because of the mismanagement of our economy by the Jubilee Government. In fact, the Jubilee Government is not even stealing your taxpayers‘ money anymore. That is because your taxes are now paying interest for what has already been borrowed. They are now borrowing and stealing and the right word for that is ―looting‖. A kid born today inherits about Kshs90,000 debt. Then he tries to justify borrowing. Then he tries to play politics and tells us that things are fine. If I was the President of Kenya, I know I can do 1,001 per cent better and Kenyans will never sleep hungry. I will never lie to Kenyans. The President talks about this salary thing trivially, while you know, I know and he knows that the new Constitution presented this country with challenges. Mr. Kibaki and Mr. Raila told Kenyans to pass this Katiba . We went out and campaigned for it knowing that 20 per cent is bad. The challenges must be addressed. We were told it was work in progress. You have a Government that has refused to align the Provincial Administration with the county governments. That is so that the governor has another chain of people trying to do the DC‘s work. The governor has another chain of people who are trying to do the work for people who are already employed in the former Government. Every level, there is duplication. Then you complain the wage bill is bloated. Really? Tell Kenyans why! I would have been happy if the President said: ―I have hired a taskforce to align.‖ They think they can always misuse the Provincial Administration to be anti-people or to protect them when they are stealing, especially elections. You know, we are past such things. It will not happen in this country again. Never! I can tell the President and his Deputy: ―Never commit yourself to the imagination that you will be in power illegally again.‖ They are in power illegally and everybody knows that. At our level, we must talk the truth. We know that this country has mis-invested its energies. When you hear the Leader of the Majority Party talking about the police--- First of all let me say that I am one of those people who, in the Bomas of Kenya, refused the need to have chiefs, DCs and DOs. We need them because much of this country cannot function without the Provincial Administration. But stop the governors from double employing people to do their job and give them power. Right now, even a County Commissioner (CC) does not even control the Administration Police (AP). Do structural changes. Take the AP back to our CCs. Why do you have a CC in Gem who cannot have security and you call him a security chief. The structure has failed because of that. Common sense must tell the President that the APs have refused to cow down to the authority of the regular police. It is because they think they belong to the CCs. They are the other wing of security. It is an experiment and we cannot even blame the Jubilee Government. We experimented and it failed, but Jubilee has the numbers in Parliament. You have everything. Tell us to help you correct an anomaly which we created in the Constitution. This Government---"
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