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    "id": 1132738,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1132738/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Manje",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "When I listened to the President yesterday, I got a feeling that this is a man who knows the vision of this country. A good Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is somebody who knows where the entity is and where it is going. So, according to me, he has a clear vision of this country. A good president of any country is one who knows how to administer a country, has public persuasion, deals with the economy properly and knows how to deal with crises like the COVID- 19 pandemic that is a problem world over. The President managed to manoeuvre through the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy is still performing positively. Many other countries were performing negatively, including the United States of America (USA). Kenya managed to, at least, get a 3 per cent growth rate despite the fact that there was COVID-19. One of the fundamentals of trade in every country is the transport industry. The President has managed to construct railways, tunnels, bridges, airports and seaports. We have seaports in Lamu and Mombasa. There is no country that can develop without a good transport system. Kenya is moving towards that direction. The President mentioned that it took about 200 years for America to turn round. In 1956, the then President of USA did something fundamental that brought America to where it is today. He created a Trans-State roads connecting all the states in USA. He had a programme that connected all the states. When you connect counties like the way the President is doing, you ease trade. A country cannot develop without trade. The transport network, which includes roads, forms the basis for movement of goods in a country, goods from one country to another, goods from county to county and the movement of people. If we have good roads in the country, people will work in one area and stay in a different area. That is where we are heading to. If you come to Nairobi today and see how it is coming up, you will see the Nairobi Expressway which will ease trade within the neighbouring counties despite the fact that it is now becoming like any other international capital city. That is the way to go. The President has made sure that Kenyans are properly educated. He allocates about 25 per cent of the Budget to education. When you educate and empower people, they easily move to the next level. He knows how to remove people from poverty. On the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure that he is coming up with, Kenya is one of the countries that is doing well in ICT. If we use ICT, we will grow fast. In Africa, we are the best. We are doing well internationally with M-Pesa. You can transact business wherever you are in the world. You can pay your workers while in another country. That is good for our country. There are still challenges that we need to deal with in the country like corruption. There is no country that develops if it has corrupt officers. By the way, the 20 poorest countries in the world are also the 20 most corrupt. So, unless we fight corruption, we cannot get ourselves out of poverty. Now that we are coming close to elections, we have to make sure that we do not elect corrupt people. That is what America did. If we continue electing corrupt people, we will never reclaim this country. The other thing that we have to deal with is political parties. We have to establish good political parties in this country so that we can transition the country to good leadership. I support the Motion."
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