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    "id": 859046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "The NSSF is about retirement. Today we threw out the County Pensions Bill. Do we want to create institutions that collect money and squander it? The NSSF is about people’s retirement and the NHIF is about universal healthcare but they are squandering what they have. Why do they not invest in health? Why do we not invest in old people’s homes? Why do we not invest in manufacturing plants for drugs so that they become cheap? Why do we now invest so that we can see this country progress? The poor say that as long as we continue to do what we are doing, and if there is nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich. The people who sit in this Chamber and make decisions are the rich the poor will come for. Poverty is real. It is time we did something about these reports. It is time we said, as Kenyans, that anybody who runs a State corporation or a ministry should think before they make the next big deal to empower and enrich themselves and have parliamentary Committees come here to say how much they have stolen. Private auditors get big fat cheques. They audit such entities and give them a clean bill of health yet we see that institutions like Kenya Power Company have issues. They give unqualified reports because they are private entities. Do we need the west to say that a private audit firm that has given Kenyan parastatals a clean Bill of health is worth it? Where are we headed, as a country? This is so sad! Take a walk. I wish I could put all Hon. Members in a bus and take them to Mukuru kwa Njenga to see how Kenyan children live or take them to Kibera to see how people are displaced and poor. People eat dry ugali . They cannot even afford maziwa lala and they do not have vegetables. Even if vegetables were to be there, we are talking about food security. What is the quality of the food that we grow in this county? We have to be serious, as a country."
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