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    "id": 114807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Gaichuhie",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nelson Ributhi Gaichuhie",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute on the President’s Speech. It was a good statement to begin with. At least, it is a new year and he gave a good statement. I want to talk about the fight against poverty. Although we talk about fight against poverty, we still have a lot to do. If we do not think of giving enough money to agricultural areas where we have most of the people who come to towns to work, we will never fight poverty because life in town is very expensive. Although we might create jobs in towns, but life is very expensive. I want to thank the Government because through the CDF, we have seen a little bit of poverty eradication. We hope the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance will fund the economic stimulus, so that we develop our constituencies. We want to avoid influx of people from their constituencies to urban centres. We hope that a lot will be done by the Ministry of Finance to decentralise funds, so that our people can remain where they are instead of coming to towns. I also want to thank the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). We have seen quite a number of projects that are going on. But I would urge the Government to lower the tariffs because even with a lot of electricity around not very many Kenyans can afford it. That makes it impossible to access that power. I also want to thank the Government because I have seen roads that are being worked on. With the decentralision of the rural roads funds, we are able to construct roads. The Government too has done national highways. They are opening up roads that traverse through the neighbouring countries. We are also told that standard gauge railways will be constructed. We hope that this will be done very soon, so that the roads that we are doing can be maintained. Heavy trucks are really wearing out our roads. If we do not do the standard gauge roads, it will be an exercise in futile. I also want to thank both principals on their stand on constitutional review. There are very nice indications that Kenya will soon have a new Constitution. When we see both of them working together, we are happy. We can assure Kenyans that we will work hand in hand with them and give Kenya a new Constitution. The work that was done by the Committee of Experts (CoE) is very recommendable. Our Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution too did a very nice job. We want thank to them because of the good job they have done so far. There are a few things that are still not in good shape in the Constitution. However, I will leave it for another rainy day. But we hope that even the clergy will give us enough support, so that we can pass this Constitution."
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