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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Were",
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        "legal_name": "Petronila Were Lokorio",
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    "content": "Madam Deputy Speaker, the President also informed us that COVID-19 showed the need to invest more in the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector, which is a welcome idea. This sitting is hybrid. We have both the physical and virtual meeting, so that Members who are not able to attend physically, are able to participate virtually. That begs the question of the Konza Technopolis. The President did not touch on it seeing that he told us that ICT is the future. We want a law put in place to guide the Konza Technopolis. I know that there is a Bill coming up so that Konza is not run on the whims of a prime minister and that there is a specific law to be to used to run the Konza Technopolis as the center of our ICT now and in the future. The President concluded by talking about nationhood. He focused on democracy and talked about the issue of the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) that failed to take off. We do not want to discuss more about the BBI because it is in the courts and some of the things have been overtaken by events. It was a good idea that was not strategically implemented. We hope that as he has promised to bring it back, it will be strategically presented, so that it is less political and people are able to embrace it. The President also talked about an increase in cancer diagnostic centres. I would like to urge the President to ensure that cancer is declared a national disaster, so that more effort is put towards cancer diagnosis, treatment and hospice care of cancer patients. If they declared cancer a national disaster, there would be more commitment to this issue because just like COVID-19, it is ravaging everybody. It does not choose who you are in society, whether you are high or low level, poor or rich, young or old, we are all being ravaged by cancer. I urge the President to declare it a national disaster. I want to congratulate the President on the Linda Mama Programme which offers free maternity. We have more women giving birth under good, quality and healthy conditions. We thank him for that. I urge our women to continue giving birth safely and build this country. Thank you, Madam Speaker, I support."
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