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    "id": 1202464,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Endebess, UDA",
    "speaker_title": ".Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose",
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    "content": " Thank you for allowing me to register my thanks on the President’s Speech. First and foremost, I congratulate you, Hon. Speaker, Moses Wetang’ula, for your election as Speaker of the National Assembly and Hon. Boss Shollei for being elected the Deputy Speaker. I thank the great people of Endebess for having seen it fit to elect me as their Member of Parliament for the third time consecutively. I assure them I will continue delivering the services as I did before and make sure that there is great development within that area. When you read our Constitution in Article 1 it says that all sovereign powers belong to the people of Kenya and shall be exercised only in accordance with the Constitution. People may exercise their sovereign power either directly or through democratically elected representatives. On 29th of October I was glad that when the President came to this House, we had all the three arms of Government which the Constitution recognises in the same Article 1. The sovereign power in the Constitution is delegated to the State organs; Parliament, Judiciary and Executive. When the three arms of Government were in this House, it brought us together and that was very important. I listened and I have read the President’s Speech. When my senior colleague in the profession, and we are also in the same category as Members of Parliament, Hon. Nyikal, referred to Article 10 as being divisive in the President’s Speech, I had to re-read it. The President said: “I submit to you that the fact the election was so close is an indication that what unites us is always much greater than what divides us.” With the support of Kenyans, we have launched ethnicity as a central principle for organising our politics and, therefore, we are retiring it for good. We are also retiring ethnic mobilization and personality cults, together with their practices of exclusion, discrimination, patronage and nepotism. Many of the young Kenyans in the streets did not look at themselves as Kikuyus, Sabaots, Luhyas or anything. They looked at themselves as Kenyans. This issue of people talking of maybe Kalenjin nation or Kikuyu nation is because of politicians polluting Kenyans. If you sit at home with your children, they never think of themselves as any other person. They consider themselves Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, the President talks of his administration allocating Ksh50 billion every year to the Hustler Fund from which micro, small and medium enterprises can access affordable credit to start and expand their businesses. Many Kenyans are looking forward to this Hustler Fund. They are looking at this House to see what legislation can be provided because as far as the President is concerned, he laid down his policy. He did not have to give the details. It is upon us to give the details. I have heard some people question the President’s Speech brevity and lack of details. It is upon this House to come up with the details. How do we operationalise the Hustler Fund? The President has said we can allocate the Ksh50 billion every year to make sure Kenyans access affordable credit; the mama mbogas, the boda boda, and everybody else including your constituents will have access to the Hustler Fund to do their businesses. This calls for the unity of this House to come up with legislation and regulations to operationalise this Fund."
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