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    "id": 1152716,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I rise to send my condolences on my own behalf and on behalf of the people of Kiharu to the family of President Mwai Kibaki and the people of Kenya. We learn a lot from the life of President Mwai Kibaki. First, I want to thank the people of Othaya for entrusting a young person with leadership as their MP. President Mwai Kibaki assumed the role of a CEO of KANU at the age of 31. He became an MP at the age of 32 and served for 50 uninterrupted years as an MP. It is through the incubation after ascending to a leadership position early that he was able to refine himself through experience to become a towering leader that he became when he assumed the Presidency of Kenya. I remember President Mwai Kibaki for the free primary education. When he was campaigning, his competitor then told the nation that it was impossible to offer free basic education. However, President Mwai Kibaki went ahead to prove them wrong when he gave the people of Kenya an opportunity to go to school without paying. Most of us went to universities and got places in various universities courtesy of the policies of President Mwai Kibaki to open up space in public universities that previously were based on bed capacity. He also opened up the economy to absorb capital from the private sector for establishment of private institutions. I want to remember President Mwai Kibaki more with regard to the economy. Across all the dimensions of the economy, President Mwai Kibaki’s legacy is towering. He got an economy that had revenues of around Ksh200 billion. By the time he left after 10 years, he had uplifted that revenue by 500 per cent to Ksh1 trillion. The current regime under President Uhuru Kenyatta has only managed to move that revenue from one trillion to around Ksh1.6 trillion which is hardly 60 per cent. The work that His Excellency the late Kibaki did in half a year, has taken the current regime an entire ten years to achieve. He got our country and economy at a point where the total debt was around Kshs600 billion. He left us with a debt of Kshs1.8 trillion, and a borrowing net of Kshs1.2 trillion in a span of ten years. In contrast, with this regime, the debt of Kshs1.8 trillion has even surpassed the limit that we set in this House. The total debt is now going towards Kshs12 trillion. Economically speaking, the late President Mwai Kibaki left the presidency when the poverty level in our country was at around 39 per cent. Currently, Kenyans facing multi-dimensional poverty are just around 63 per cent. In one way or another, two-thirds of Kenya's households are in poverty. Therefore, the country he left booming has descended into poverty. This is more visible in the other sectors. The late President Mwai Kibaki created a very good environment for our private sector to thrive in. Most private sector institutions like banks and companies are very proud. 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."
}