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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe Nyutu",
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    "content": "This country has been divided down the middle depending on the election results. The President’s commitment to serve everybody from every corner of this country was the first step in building of nationalism and statesmanship. I also underscore the President’s commitment in Paragraph 16 that his administration will be open to oversight by the two Houses of the Parliament. This shows a President and administration that is sure of itself; that knows it is going to perform. That is why he welcomed and encouraged the two Houses to oversight his Government. He said that everybody should see the public, “get the value of every cent invested”. Listening to the President on Paragraph 16, I was much okay and assured that our country is going now to witness better days than before. The President’s idea of encouraging Parliament, that is, the Senate and National Assembly, to come up with a mechanism where Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) will be coming to the House is good though it has been fought by naysayers. They should come and answer questions relating to things happening in the counties because we are all here representing counties. It is a very welcome move. I know that there are those who have said that even without new mechanism the CS can still be summoned here. However, to avoid many complications and disagreements, I suggest that we come up with procedures that the President proposed and encouraged in his Speech. It will make the Parliament get the answers directly from the CSs and help in getting direct responses on issues affecting our people. The President’s commitment to arrest corruption by empowering the Judiciary should not go unnoticed. As my colleagues have noted and as all of us know, this country has had myriad challenges. This is not because of inability to generate adequate revenue, but hemorrhage of public resources through corruption. Hearing the President’s commitment to empowering the Judiciary by more allocation of resources to enable it expand its capacity to deal with these cases on time was a step in the right direction in the development of this country. If we arrest the hemorrhage that has been happening to public resources, this country will be better off. Our people will then enjoy the services that Government can offer in a much bigger way. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Paragraph 21, the President suggested that his administration will scale up production by stopping subsidies on consumables. However, production is what will be subsidized because that is what we need. Some of those who have spoken before me would want the cost of living arrested immediately, served as a cup of instant coffee. Some things need some time to sort out. We do not want temporary solutions. We want lasting solutions that can be effective in the long term. That is why subsidising production is more important than subsidising consumption. Therefore, I laud the President for that particular economic step that he made because we know for every success – and all the Members here will agree with me---"
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