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    "id": 1319602,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Wajir North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ibrahim Saney",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. If you look at the language and tone of the President’s Address, you realise that it paints a Government that is painstakingly divorcing itself from a dark past. A past of poor economic management to one that may offer respite to that poor economy so that it can fulfil its promises. I am keenly attached to the President’s Address on corruption. If we deal with corruption and slay that devil, all the other things will fall into place. What I expect to see from the Kenya Kwanza Government is a firm decision on how to deal with corruption decisively. If I may cherry-pick some few things on the Address, food security and by extension the cost of living has been a concern to Kenyans. We know the past bad economy, the post COVID-19 impact and the drought that has lasted for nearly four years have entirely impacted on the economic status thereby affecting our food security. However, the Government has taken bold initiatives by providing subsidies on fertiliser and, at least, making sure that some of the machines required like tractors are zero-rated in terms of tax. We need to move further. We know that planting seeds are very expensive in this country. Tractors cannot do anything by themselves. They require farm implements like planters, harrows and ploughs. As we speak, all those farm implements are vatable. Kenya can only be food secure if we highly subsidise the agricultural sector. We need to do much more. In as much as I appreciate the Kenya Kwanza’s initiative towards attaining food security, more needs to be done in the same sector. The Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) was inherited from the past regime. We know it is expensive and would have been implemented in a piecemeal manner. However, the objective of CBC is welcome to this nation. We equally appreciate over 50,000 teachers who were recruited by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). I know there have been some arguments about the status of employment. Some say it is by contract, while others say that a few are on permanent and pensionable basis. That is neither here nor there. An employment by whichever means is an employment. I congratulate the Government for employing over 50,000 teachers. After all, all we needed was employment and teachers for our students in every part of the country. However, I disagree with the capitation for every student in the country. Wajir North and Daadab do not have the same environment for every learner like Nairobi. I cannot understand why capitation has been equalised when we are unequal in all the aspects of life. Universal healthcare is a move in the right direction. Until the Ajuran community are included in the Government, I believe that a commendable job done by this Government is not fully implemented. Wajir North is not part of this Government. We need to be, at least, accommodated in the Kenya Kwanza Government. Otherwise, in so far as the value of inclusion is concerned…"
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