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    "id": 1134005,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Likuyani, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 294,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Wamalwa Kibunguchy",
        "slug": "enoch-kibunguchy"
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to also say one or two things about the Speech that the President presented here yesterday. To begin with, I would like to join my colleagues in congratulating the President for all that he said. It was rather a long Speech, but it covered most of the areas that are pertinent. Let me start off with what we, as the people of Likuyani, have benefitted from. When he talked about roads, for the very first time in Likuyani we have three roads being tarmacked, namely, the road from Turbo to Soy, the road from Lukusi to Fafaro and the road from River Nzoia to Matunda. As residents of Likuyani, once these roads are tarmacked, we are planning to embark on a major programme of planting trees along the road reserves. We will also try to put up lights along the roads. They are not very long roads. That is what we want to do so that we can empower our people to do business even at night. The next thing I would like to talk about is health. I know the President spent quite a bit of time talking about the expansion of the health infrastructure, but something that has bothered me since the promulgation of the Constitution - and I have to say it again and again because it is an area to which we need to put in a lot of thought - is devolution of health services. I think it was a mistake and we have to accept it. The county governments do not have the capacity to handle health issues. They might have capacity to put up buildings, but they cannot handle health as a profession and a service. For the very first time in this country, we are seeing sparks of strikes 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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