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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "saw them when he signed charters with the women of this country. Not only did he sign a charter but he also transformed it into an agenda in his manifesto, which ended up becoming the Kenya Kwanza Plan that we shall be implementing. I commit as a feminist and the “women representative” of the people of Dagoretti South to support any legislative agenda that will push the women agenda in this House. His Excellency the President was keen to bring up the health agenda. When each Member of Parliament here does their clinics on Monday mornings, the biggest issue they have to contend with is how to pay hospital bills and bills for the deceased. This country cannot afford to continue paying for health out of pocket. When his Excellency the President will champion Bills to reform the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) in this House, I shall be a champion. I will champion for the reform of the health sector, and more so health financing. I commend the President for putting it in his speech. We have been told that there is a taskforce coming up to review the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC). So, when it came up as an agenda on the President’s Speech, I was excited because some of us have children in Grade Six this year. We want to know what CBC means for a young child of 12 years taken to a high school and has to be in school with students who are probably 18 or 19 years. So, when we shall come to the issue of education, I know even this House shall be involved in recommending some changes to CBC form of education and this taskforce will be one of the things that will be a highlight in the life of this Parliament. Hon. Deputy Speaker, His Excellency the President applied himself on the issue of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and the digital economy. This is a sector that brought me up. I would like to report to this House that in the world that we are living today, ideas and data are the currency. If we do not take note of the new and emerging economies in the digital and creative economy, we shall not be fit for any purpose in a time such as this. So, it is my joy and celebration that His Excellency the President, through his very important speech, was able to address the issues of the creative digital economy. The question on whether telcos should continue operating as banks, whether they can be regulatable when they operate by the Communications Authority of Kenya while they are also conducting monetary business that should be overseen and regulated by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) is an issue of concern. The issue of Fuliza and digital loans is critical. We cannot have a country that is listed as people who cannot pay loans. The idea of moving the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) to a credit system was very welcome as an idea from His Excellency the President. I know this House shall have a bite on this issue. I know that our Members who represent Kenyans and have been listed, and who have been condemned shall be contributing to it. For me, the housing issue is critical. I hail from this city that brought me up. I do not know of any other place. As people retreat to their rural areas, Nairobi is my ushago so to say. So, when the issue of housing and settlement was brought up by His Excellency the President, I was keen to know what he had to say. I picked out a great idea of aggregation, specialisation and standardisation that speaks to the people of Dagoretti South, who are worldly renowned as artisans and as Jua Kali Sector idea leaders. Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you drive on your way from Adams Arcade round-about all the way to Karen, you shall see the street lined-up on both sides of the road by Jua Kali artisans. These are people who will benefit from the housing and settlement plan. Hon. Deputy Speaker, because there is no much time to lay out everything I wanted to say, I would leave it at the issue of corruption. Hon. Fatuma Mohammed from Migori County said that His Excellency the President had nothing to say about corruption. That speech was laden with issues if addressed would address the main issue of corruption. Even as we address corruption, we need to remind ourselves what Mother Theresa told us – that, whatever you resist, persists. We cannot keep glorifying corruption by giving it a high pedestal. Let us start 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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