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    "id": 1132838,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Njoro, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Charity Chepkwony",
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        "legal_name": "Charity Kathambi Chepkwony",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the State of the Nation Address by the President. When I followed the Address by the President yesterday, I had a lot of concerns. First of all, I want to appreciate the road network in the country. I can also say that I have lobbied and some roads have successfully been completed in my constituency but, I can still mention roads that funds have not been allocated to. In addition, I still have a lot of concern when it comes to security matters. As I stand here, within this year of 2021, I have lost over seven people. No investigations were opened. I get concerns when we talk about security. We are getting a lot of challenges as Members of Parliament. We lobby for vehicles for our police officers but we cannot even get a single one. As I stand here, I have even tried to lobby for my constituency officers to get vehicles from 2017. Njoro Constituency, being a very sensitive constituency in this country, is worrying when matters of security are mentioned here yet we have a lot of challenges on the ground. We have even lobbied for the numbers of anti-stock theft officers to be increased and it is really a thorny issue. I had a lot of interest in the energy sector; the connectivity of electricity. There are a lot of challenges. As I speak, my constituency is composed of six wards. When you go to those wards, you will find many people who do not have electricity. As we are discussing this matter, it should be noted that we are expecting the new Cabinet Secretary to take a lot of action and make sure our people are connected with electricity. When it comes to security matters, we have been let down. A constituency like Njoro which is the second largest in Nakuru County has had to lobby for locations and sub-locations but we have not got even a single location. That means it becomes very hard for service delivery and matters of security to be taken seriously. It also makes it very hard for people to gather more information from the locations and sub-locations because we have been denied them."
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