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    "content": "of Murang’a County for electing me overwhelmingly, being a youth and a lady. I wish to congratulate the Hon. Speaker for having been elected as the Speaker of this 13th Parliament. I also wish to congratulate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for being elected as Deputy Speaker, being a female Deputy Speaker from the popular caucus of the Women Representatives that used to be unpopular and were referred to as “flower girls”. It shows that this House is coming of age and we are moving forward. I wish to congratulate the President for having nominated Hon. Alice Wahome to be the Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation. She is from Murang’a County and I wish to confirm to the nation that Murang’a County is a hub for beautiful and brilliant women. We are sure that given the opportunity by this House, she will take water and sanitation matters to the next level. I wish to comment on the President's Speech. Firstly, 70 per cent of the people of Murang’a County depend on agriculture. When we unlock agriculture, we are going to unlock the potential and the economy of the people of Murang’a County. I wish to pick a few points that the President talked about. He talked of reducing the cost of production on animal feeds and farm inputs. I will not emphasise agricultural issues because Members have commented on them. I wish to go straight to the hustlers’ fund. As we talk about the hustlers’ fund, I wish to appreciate the existence of other funds, including the Women Enterprise Development Fund, the Youth Enterprise Development Fund and the Uwezo Fund. People may not have felt the impact of those funds previously but, if those funds are distributed in the right manner, our people are going to feel their positive effects. We have hustlers and young women in this nation who are suffering. They are going to other countries in search of greener pastures, especially our ladies who go to work in countries like Saudi Arabia. If we empower those people, we are going to mitigate some of those issues. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if we continue empowering the hustlers, we are going to mitigate the issues of migration. Our young ladies are migrating from Kenya to other nations and are being misused and being made captives. As I summarise, I wish to go back to the issue of agriculture. If we work on agriculture, we are going to mitigate rural-urban migration and promote urban-rural migration. By doing this, we are going to create employment. We are also going to deal with the issue of housing and this will eradicate slums and congestion in our cities. I am looking forward to working in this Parliament, to be mentored, to be guided and to take the people of Murang’a County to the next level."
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