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    "speaker_name": "Kilgoris, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius Sunkuli",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, of course there are questions that will be asked. How did we arrive at this situation? This is from an optimistic situation to declaring our economy to be very bad. We would like to do some post-mortem on what were the actual causes of this situation. I do not know whether that will help much. The situation requires much of our attention. This Parliament should consider itself not a war government or a constitutional parliament but a parliament that must sort out the economy. More than anything else, things that will pain us, things that must set us scratching our heads are how to bring back the economy to shape because we are not doing well. The many things that we promised our people on the campaign trail depend on our economy. Unless we sort out the economy, there is very little else we are going to do so we wait for the Government to present to us their economic policies and see what can be done differently. I know most of the people who were in the Jubilee Government are also in this Government. The only consolation we have is that I hear the President is very well advised by the economists. I hope these economists will crack this nut and tell us what ought to be done so that we come out of this conundrum. The economy is what has caused a lot of unemployment and of all, problems Members will face in their constituencies. I think we will tackle many but the one that will give us a lot of disappointment is the unemployment issue. Where are we going to get jobs for the many young people we have today? If we do not deal with the economic problems, many of us will not be re-elected because young people do not want to hear about it. They want jobs and they do not want us to tell them that we faced sharks in the Jordan. I think in the first case they do not know that there is a Jordan to cross and so we have to sort out the economic issues today and not tomorrow. I noticed the President has laid strong emphasis on agriculture and coming from an area where agriculture is the main activity, the President must be supported. The problems are because of production. Production in agriculture is a very expensive thing in Kenya, not just the fertilizer but the hiring of tractors and fuelling but, it is a good step that we have addressed the issue of fertilizer. Unfortunately, if you tell farmers to go to NCPB to buy fertilizer and then say they must be registered, that is not good because that will be creating red tape and it will encourage corruption. Make available these fertilizers in shops so that people can buy them from there without having to go get a signature from the District Officer (DO) or from the chief. They need to access and buy fertilizers from shops. The President has addressed the issue of health and it is a very touchy issue. We are looking at it from the point of universal healthcare. I think that is okay but I would also like to ask this House, although it is a House that believes in devolution, whether health is actually right for devolution. I think giving the health function to people at the county level before we prepare them is risking lives of many Kenyans. It is time for this House to reconsider bringing the health function to where more experts are because not every governor is ready to look at 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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