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    "id": 1319571,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Githunguri, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to give my contribution on the current debate as we analyse the President’s Speech on the state of the nation. I listened to it because I was keen to understand the extent to which we have made progressive steps and achieved milestones towards economic development with the aim of improving the livelihoods of our people. I was quite impressed when the President spoke about the many avenues he has sought to bring the cost of living down. He mentioned his efforts in the agricultural sector, and more particularly his effort to bring fertiliser to our farmers. As a Member of Parliament representing a constituency that is greatly involved in agriculture, I was keen to know to what extent the subsidised fertiliser will reach our people. Where I come from, fertiliser is a very important input for our coffee, tea and subsistence farmers. However, I was very happy when he said that he acknowledged that the subsidised fertiliser does not get to all the farmers who require it because of the distance factor. He committed that he would work very closely with county governments so that subsidised fertiliser can get to the nearest points of collection for our farmers. I was very impressed because farmers in Githunguri travel over 75 kilometres to access subsidised fertiliser in Thika which is very unfair to them. I hope the President’s handlers and cabinet secretaries who serve under him will take what he promised this House and put it to reality so that we do not come back complaining that the promise was not kept. However, I was very interested…"
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