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    "id": 1130058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the President",
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        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
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    "content": "intergenerational quest is what inspired the Big Four Agenda as the strategic guide for my second term in office. To do so, my administration and our colleagues in both tiers of Government had to make commitments towards the transformation in the four key areas of intent. The first one is liberating our people from the poverty of dignity caused by inadequate services. The second is transitioning our people, especially our youth, from being recipients of handouts to producers of goods and services as well as owners of capital. The third is building a holistic base of human capital that is food-secure and health-assured. The fourth is the restoration of the dignity and the pride inherent in one owning a decent home. Hon. Speakers, I will now give an account of what my administration has done, not only in the last year but also what we have attempted to do in the last eight years as well. I will use the last eight years to give these august Houses a scale against which everything that my Administration has achieved is to be measured. I will use history as a yardstick that we can borrow from to appreciate the achievements of our two tiers of Government and our objective of delivery. The first area of thrust that I will report on is the state of our economic development. I will borrow from the Four Legacy Frames I articulated in my Madaraka Day Speech on 30th June 2021 in Kisumu City. Under the state of our economic development, I will report on two frames that have guided my administration. These are Economic Acceleration and the Big Push Investments. Allow me, Hon. Members, to start with Economic Acceleration which is increasing the speed of achieving our economic goals. I also use the word “acceleration” to imply the mechanism of multiplying our economic fundamentals. When my administration took office in April 2013, we were eager to multiply what was bequeathed to us. And I am happy to report to this Parliament that we have multiplied our critical fundamentals in ways even I did not imagine were possible. For instance, in 2013, Kenya was Africa’s 12th wealthiest nation with a GDP of Ksh4.74 trillion. This GDP was accumulated in a span of 123 years through the four administrations before us because I include the colonial administration. In just eight years, my administration has multiplied this GDP by a factor of two plus. Today, our GDP stands at Ksh11 trillion, up from Ksh4.74 trillion."
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