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    "id": 789346,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Tong’i",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2611,
        "legal_name": "Richard Nyagaka Tongi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have had only one Coca Cola Company in Kisii. The Big Agenda Four of the President is to ensure that we have industries all over the country. The Coca Cola Company was the only factory we had in Kisii, both Kisii County and Nyamira County, but it has been closed down due to vested interest. Now, sodas are being supplied to the consumers in Kisii from as far as 400 kilometres away. It beats logic for anyone to ask or start to imagine that it will make any business sense to supply Coke in Kisii from 400 kilometres away whereas we had a factory in Kisii which was profitable. Experience has it that it has been profitable until they mismanaged it deliberately to ensure it justifies their case of moving it elsewhere. This factory was creating employment opportunity for our people. It was creating business opportunity. Farmers were able to supply their goods. All of us were happy because of that input, namely, the workers, landlords and tenants. Landlords were getting tenants. It is a painful experience. That is why I am saying that PPP left on its own is a disaster. We must tame bad investors because they are coming with the single mind of making abnormal profits notwithstanding the number of people they are going to step on. Finally, as I wind up, I also want to take this opportunity on my own behalf and on behalf of the people of Nyaribari Chache, to share with my colleagues the pain of losing one such hero as Kenneth Matiba. He was one hero that all of us cherished. It pains me that we are mourning, whining and saying all that when he has died. This is a man who suffered. We all saw him suffer and we had the capacity to change his life. He was a major investor in this country, but we killed him politically. We killed his business for political expedience, but we are mourning him today. Like the Member was saying, we are waiting for the signal from Matiba to tell us how to deal with these pretenders who are mourning and telling us Matiba was a hero yet they did nothing to change his life to make him the better person he should have been. The democracy that we are enjoying in this country today majorly emanates from sacrifices of people like Matiba and many others that have had to sacrifice their health. They sacrificed their business empires. They sacrificed their ambition and family for the good of this country. He was such a great man who served this country diligently. No wonder he had such a kind of following. There are only three people who have had that kind of following in this country. Another one is Hon. Raila Odinga. It all clearly explains the sacrifices these people have made for this country. The other people who may have such kind of following for the sacrifices they have made might not have been to the level of Matiba in sacrificing his health, businesses and family comfort, but they have nevertheless made sacrifices. Mzee Nyachae, during his hey days in FORD- People had such a following in Kisii. He at one point literally got all elective seats in Kisii; 100 per cent. That has The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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