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    "id": 1202572,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1202572/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Kiplagat",
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    "content": "On the Presidential Speech, I would like to really congratulate the President for having made the best Speech ever, although some of our colleagues are saying it was the shortest Speech. It might be short in length but in content, it had everything that we need to look at so that we can improve the lives of Kenyans. One of the issues, which was our campaign child, is the issue of bottom-up. I want to tell all the hustlers in this country to relax as we make sure that the Hustlers Fund is in place. When putting in place the legislation and the policies to govern the Hustlers Fund, we need to make sure that money will be accessible to the mamamboga who is down there. We have had so many funds like Uwezo Fund, Youth Fund and the Women Fund, but we are going to set up the Hustlers Fund in a way that funds will be accessible to those who did not go to school and those who went to school. The model that will work better is anchoring it in the National Government-Constituency Development Fund (NG- CDF) model so that we have officers all the way from the village-level up to the national level, so that we can make it a success. Another issue why I really support the President is the fertilizer subsidy. I come from Uasin Gishu County. As we all know, Uasin Gishu is an agricultural county. We want to thank the President for having put subsidy on fertilizers thus reducing the price to Kshs3500 per bag. Our people are requesting that the price reduces further to Kshs2000 or Kshs2500 per bag. It is very important that, as a country, we tell ourselves the truth. We cannot subsidize consumption. We cannot subsidize ugali. We can only subsidise production because, at the end of the day, we need to live within our means. The current national debt is so high that we have to tell Kenyans the truth – that, we cannot afford those manner of subsidies, especially consumption subsidies. Let us subsidise our farmers. There is a lot of work to be done in the Ministry of Agriculture."
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