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    "id": 1132691,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "I cannot fail to mention that many of the things the President enumerated yesterday are things that he was able to do in his first term from 2013 to 2017. Post 2017 is a story for another day, courtesy of what has been christened, 'The Handshake'. I know those who want to justify the “Handshake” may argue differently, but it is not the way to go, especially at a time like this when we are going into elections. That we allow people to use the electoral process to refuse to accept election results to justify a handshake and christen themselves as peacemakers. The President was at pains to try and justify the Handshake and claim that there was a constitutional moment. Respectfully, I said it yesterday and I want to repeat it again today. The aspirations for constitutional changes and the constitutional moments that the President speaks to was a constitutional moment whose aspirations were by the political class led by the President and his elder brother, the former Prime Minister. It had and still has nothing to do with the aspirations of the Kenyan people. The President touched on matters to do with the economy and actually went to claim that we are the sixth richest country in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Yes, it could be true. There could be a few Kenyans who would easily rank among the richest Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa and probably rank sixth as the richest in the world. Those are just a very small fraction of Kenyans. The majority of Kenyans are living in abject poverty; the cost of living is at its highest. I want to join those Members who faulted the crafters of the President's Speech. It looks like there are people in the Office of the President who were intent on embarrassing the President! It is not that they wrote for him a Speech that he could not complete because of it being lengthy, but it was also factually wrong! If you read Clause 164 and Clause 166 of that Speech, the President mentioned the KMC. I have heard the Member for Isiolo mention that he has not seen the Off-take Programme in his constituency. It begs the question: Where is that Off-take Programme happening? It could be in a few private ranches in the neighbourhood of Isiolo and Samburu and Kenyans may beg to know who the owners of those private ranches are!"
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