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    "id": 1222620,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1222620/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Hon. Members who served with me when I was the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, like Hon. Sarah Korere, who is still here with us will bear me witness that we successively, in all our reports from October 2017, indicated that there were no resources that were being committed to the Big Four Agenda. That is how the Big Four Agenda initiative died a natural, slow and painful death. I am glad that the Kenya Kwanza Administration, under President William Ruto, is not just about talk. When we talk about the bottom-up economic transformation agenda, through the Office of the President, they have been able to narrow down to the value chain that will actualise the agenda. They have identified the value chains, and that is why the Committee is now asking the MDAs to ensure that they work together with the National Assembly. They should ensure that the Annual Estimates that have come in are value chain-oriented. If I dare mention, some of those value chains are in areas that touch the lives of the people at the bottom of the pyramid. Those industries include leather, dairy, textiles, ginning and processing of cotton, tea, rice, edible oils that have become largely out of reach for many Kenyans and building materials sector that has a huge ripple effect on the economy. We also have mining. I also saw the Cabinet Secretary responsible for mining talk about support for mining at the very local level. This will ensure that those people that you see every now and then being buried in Nyanza and parts of Western in mines that people work in, that are not safe, are supported. Of course, there is also the blue economy that will go to support many of our people that work around our lakes…"
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