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    "id": 1319598,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to thank the President for his Speech. We sometimes find ourselves in a situation where we all need to work as a team as a country. All Kenyans are hurting and crying because of the high cost of living. I came up with a Motion on the National Youth Service (NYS) when I was a Senator, which evolved into the current NYS. One of the four pillars of the Motion was that any young person who goes through the NYS must thereafter join any of the disciplined forces. This is because the graduates are young men and women who are not looking for any salary, but are ready to be patriotic and to work for the country. I am happy that we can see the fruits of that Motion after 10 years. We will start singing a song of what we want to see in the country if we pay our debts. We must receive money and use it accountably and transparently. People should see that transformation. We must pay our debts in the end. I also thank the President for that. I am worried when I look at the team that is working with the President. Transforming this country requires solutions. Give the President solutions. Technocrats must tell us what is the best step to take now that we are hurting. Their advice to the President must offer solutions and not raise other questions. Is it the President who has to work alone for Kenya to move? I doubt that. Therefore, I still question the team advising the President. This team must remember that we came from COVID-19. It was a post COVID-19 period and there was inflation. You must have solutions on how we can start ensuring that the cost of living comes down. It is true that we have huge harvests that are coming, but the climate is telling us there is huge harvest on one side and there is water on the other side that is taking all over. Mandera and other areas are in another world. What happens in between? We have to rethink. In this country, when one side has abundance of harvest, the other one is in drought. How do we harness all this to make sure when this side has no food, there is food on the other side? If we say that we are moving on well, then we must see the cows of Kajiado staying at home and feeding within Kajiado. If we find them looking for pastures elsewhere, then it means that there is still a challenge. All of us have to stand on this economic pillar and agree. I submit to our Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee that there is need to put an allocation to rebrand our airport. We must ensure that the door, the hub of Kenya, becomes an airport that when everyone enters Kenya, they respect and believe in it. They must know that this is a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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