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    "speaker_name": "West Pokot County, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rael Kasiwai",
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    "content": " Thank you for this golden opportunity to make my first speech in Parliament since independence. I congratulate the Speaker, Hon. Moses Wetangula and the Deputy Speaker, Hon. Gladys Boss, in absentia, for their election. I believe in them and they are going to deliver in the 13th Parliament. I also want to congratulate you for carrying out the days’ programme. I am a Christian and a strong Catholic for that matter. Therefore, I thank the Almighty God for giving me and all of us good health and for the peaceful elections. It was the most peaceful election ever. I thank the people of West Pokot for overwhelmingly voting me as their County Member of Parliament; more so, the people of Kacheliba, Sigor, South Pokot and Kapenguria constituencies. I want to promise them that I am going to serve them diligently and with a lot of dedication. I also want to thank all my fellow teachers in my county. They supported me because they had a lot of confidence in me. Wherever they are, I promise that I am going to support Motions that promote education. Our county is one of those marginalised counties where the girl-child is still not considered important. I promised the women of West Pokot that I am going to work hard to ensure that the economy goes up using the NGAAF. Although the NGAAF issue is a real problem because it has very little money, we hope that the current Government is going to do something about it. This is because the women, youth and people living with disabilities are the majority in our society, yet they are given very little money. I want to urge Women Members of Parliament in this House to urge the President to do something about it. Those people expect so much from us, and yet the money allocated to us is very little. West Pokot is one of the counties with many challenges. In the media, you saw that it is one of the counties hard hit by drought. Although we have two sub-counties doing farming, the other two – Sigor and Kacheliba constituencies – are arid areas. People living in those two constituencies are pastoralists because they cannot do farming due to lack of rain. So, they have resorted to nomadic lifestyle, which sometimes causes conflicts with the neighbouring counties and countries like Uganda. When the President gave his Speech, he talked about subsidizing fertilizer, but he did not talk much on pastoralism, which faces a major problem in my county. It has resulted to insecurity and conflicts with the neighbouring communities as they compete for the same resources. I hope that the President is going to do something on the same so that my people in those two constituencies are assisted. I want to thank the Hon. Member who came up with this Motion. As I said earlier, I am a teacher by profession. So, the Member had teachers and my county in mind. That is where there is real problem of school dropouts due to lack of food in schools. I would like to support 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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