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    "id": 1202504,
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    "speaker_name": "Sabatia, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Clement Sloya",
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    "content": "Hon. Alfred Agoi, for the support they accorded me. I must thank them. I also thank my opponents with whom I battled so much. They gave me the experience that I required to emerge the winner. I must also thank them because they were worthy opponents and they helped me get to where I am. The people of Sabatia Constituency have many problems. I will name just a few. We have youth unemployment which is hitting the constituency hard. We must do something to ensure that we rectify the situation. We have poor road networks which make connectivity in the villages and nearby constituencies a very big problem. I will seek to push this agenda in the House to ensure that we have good roads through the National Government - Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) that we hope will be reinstated very soon. We also have bursary issues. In the past, we have seen discrimination in distribution of bursaries. We will ensure that once CDF is reinstated we get equitable share bursaries based on needs. We also have a housing problem in Sabatia. Many people live in abject poverty and cannot put up homes for themselves. There are leaking roofs. In the past, we have tried to work on a few. We seek to continue doing the same through the programmes we are going to set up in the near future. Turning to the President’s Speech, I singled out one element to do with the Hustler Fund. The President said we will capitalise on existing technologies, both in the public and private sectors, in distribution of the Hustler Fund. I urge the people, especially the youth, in Sabatia to tap into this by going for ICT training so that they can be part of distribution of the Hustler Fund, which I am very sure is going to work well for them. I also want to commend the President for proposing transformation of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to Kenya Revenue Service (KRS) in a bid to make it a people-friendly entity. One thing is that when people who earn a salary are paid, a big percentage of that money goes to KRA through PAYE. So, the change of name from KRA to KRS is supposed to make the entity a friendly partner to the people who pay tax. Far from that, security has been a problem in my constituency. There are rising cases of insecurity. The police stations are understaffed. When the Standing Orders are amended to allow Cabinet Secretaries to come to the House and answer questions, we will ask the CS for Interior and National Administration to ensure that police stations within Sabatia Constituency are well equipped and well-staffed to ensure that we enhance the security situation. The President also touched on subsidising fertiliser and bringing the prices down to Ksh3,500 per bag. I want to report to the people of Sabatia, through this House, that our fertiliser was received at the Chavakali National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depot and farmers should be ready to purchase the same fertiliser at that rate through that depot. I want to thank the President so much for the second time for having stood with some of us to ensure that we make it to this House. Lastly, this was supposed to be first but I thought it should come last. I want to thank God the Almighty, who made all of us come to this House. I urge all Members of Parliament to stand together to ensure that we work for our people. I am very sure my neighbours in Emuhaya, Hamisi, Vihiga and Luanda will stand with me as I will stand with them to ensure that we address issues surrounding our constituencies to make our county a better place than we found it."
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