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    "id": 874230,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I worry that the direction that we are taking as a country is one which is dictatorial; where a CS gives herself powers which she does not have. These are people who are suffering from what the good Sen. (Eng.) Maina would refer to as poverty related syndrome. You are poor and are being punished for being poor. You went to school and finished and a CS now comes to say that she is the law unto herself. This is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard from a CS. You cannot go out there and order the police. There is something that we call; the due process of law. Sen. (Eng.) Maina refers to this loan as a civil debt and if it is a civil debt, let them go to court and get a court order. However, this points to a bigger problem that we have in this country. When we go to the villages, the communities tell us; ‘you keep telling us to send our kids to school.We send them to school and you give them bursaries but what next? They graduate from school then we start looking at each other’. Instead of saying, ‘go and arrest those defaulters’, we need to start asking ourselves serious questions. What is it that we are doing? There are so many young people out there who are educated and unemployed. How do you expect those people to pay the loan? During the high moments of our political campaigns, I have heard every party say that,‘we will waiver your Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) loans and coffee loans’.Why not look into the issues of these students? They are young people who are not even farmers. The CS ought to first know that what she did is illegal. That is why I keep on saying that we need an opposition in this country. We cannot allow people to keep on running up and down and deciding what they should do. Powers given to cabinet secretaries in this country are ridiculous."
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