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    "speaker_name": "Chepalungu, CCM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Victor Koech",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to start by congratulating Hon. Opiyo Wandayi for bringing this particular Motion to the Floor of the House. I am happy because the Member has realised that the only place that we can discuss meaningful issues affecting the country is through the National Assembly. If I can take the House back to 2002, one of the greatest Presidents that we have ever had, the late Mwai Kibaki, in his inaugural speech, talked about recovery of the economy. It took him almost three years to stabilise the country’s economy. At the end of his term, the economy had recovered to a record 7.1 per cent and our school-going children had free primary education. Our current President, William Samoei Ruto, in his inaugural speech in 2022, talked about the measures he will take to recover the economy. There is a President who said, “If you want to set a country free, speak the truth.” What the President spoke is the truth. In his agenda, he wants to recover the economy of the country and bring back the decency that existed before the handshake regime. To that effect, the President said that the country is now going to shift from the policy of subsidising consumption to subsidising production. In so doing, in his projection, in the next 18 months the country will have recovered fully. I am in support of the same though I am in agreement that what the country is going through economically at the moment is not very good. I want to end there and save some minutes for other Members of Parliament."
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