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    "id": 1031987,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve",
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        "legal_name": "Getrude Musuruve Inimah",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to comment on the President’s State of Address Speech. I want to begin by thanking the President for coming up with a great speech. There are quite a number of issues that the President addressed. They are voluminous, but I will point out on a few issues. One of the issues that came out strongly and I felt that it needed a lot of conversation because it is the issue of enhancing economic development. In the President’s speech, the issue of the youth was highlighted in terms of ensuring consumerism to become producers. We, as a nation, have to look for mechanisms of ensuring that we are producers. As Kenyans, we are buying what is produced by Kenyans in order to boost the manufacturing industry. I have been very happy in many occasions when I see the President putting on a shirt made in Kenya. He has done that severally. It is motivating. It was very clear in his speech that you need to know the way. Once you know the way, you have to walk the way and show the way. In his manner of dressing, he is encouraging that we have to support our local manufacturers. This is something I love. When it comes to dressing, I am keen about going to that common mwananchi to make my orders in order to boost them. This is because I know that when you boost the locals, they will pay their rent, put food on their tables and they will be motivated to work harder. Madam Deputy Speaker, still on the issues of economy, in the President’s speech, it was quite clear that national geospatial mapping of resources has been done across the 47 counties. This means that all the resources available in the counties will be identified and known. I am hoping that the mapping of resources will benefit the locals. This is something to encourage because we have to bring to a stop the rural-urban migration of our youth. We have a lot of resources in counties. If this mapping has been done very well, youth will get employment opportunities wherever they are. We are talking of creating employment. This means we have to expand our thinking and thoughts. County"
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