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    "id": 1132682,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Peter Kimaru (",
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    "content": "Mathioya, JP): Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the President’s Speech. From the outset, I would like to support and congratulate His Excellency the President for his State of the Nation Address. I would like to say that the President touched on a lot of issues that have been accomplished in this nation over the last eight years of his administration. I do not want to go over all of them and we also know how long the Speech was because there were enormous issues. Many things have been accomplished in the last four years. A few of them did come out to me in a very special way. We know that we have had a very difficult time for the last two years and this country has had to struggle with the COVID-19 Pandemic. In my view, the way his administration handled the pandemic really stood out. It is really encouraging that we have contained the virus to a large extent and also grown the economy. We were told that in the third quarter, the economy was growing at more than 10 per cent. That is honestly exemplary for me. The President mentioned many sectors that his administration has accomplished, such as infrastructural development, namely, roads and the ports. We have an operational Port of Lamu. We have new berths that are working efficiently in Mombasa. We have a railway network that has been expanded across the country. We have new hospitals. The President mentioned that many hospitals have been built in the last few years and equipped by his administration. A lot has been done in the old hospitals and even though we have not come out of the pandemic yet, we have largely contained it. Hon. Speaker, Kenya is a leading country in green energy and that for me, is important. It is encouraging that we have ensured that many people in our rural areas are connected to electricity. A lot still continues to be done. In the water sector, a lot done has been done across the country and that is very welcome. I come from Mathioya which is an agricultural constituency. Tea and coffee are paramount and in the last few years, the prices have started to soar because of the structural changes that have been made to ensure that the farmer becomes paramount and we expand our buckets. We are selling coffee at almost Kshs100 or even more in some areas. Tea is already doing over 60 per cent of what we were earning in the last few years when it was declining. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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