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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Thika Town, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also rise to comment on the State of the Nation Address by His Excellency President William Ruto. The Speech was short but to the point. The President addressed the critical issues of our nation. This is not to say that whatever he did not address is not important. What he did, he addressed the most crucial issues he promised when he was campaigning. In terms of affordable housing programme - and I am one of the beneficiaries - we have seen that 46,792 affordable housing are underway whereas 40,000 have already commenced, and moving forward many more are going to come up. Among the affordable housing we have the social housing that also takes place as well as the market category housing, for people to choose whatever they want or they are comfortable with or they are able to pay back or repay back. It is worth noting that many people have been suffering and that they would like to own homes, but they did not have an opportunity to do so. Now they have been given an opportunity to do it with a very good repayment package. I am encouraging all Kenyans, anybody who has ever wanted to own a house that they have an opportunity to do it, and thanks to the Kenya Kwanza Government. I would also not forget education. During this year’s Budget, the education sector was given a big amount of money to streamline it. Not forgetting that in the history of Kenya, this is the only time we have hired very many teachers at a go. When the Kenya Kwanza Government took over, we found that the new system had a challenge and it was streamlined. I mean the CBC. We have the Junior Secondary School (JSS). Right now, the ones in Grade Seven are headed to Grade Eight and that is why we are partnering with the Ministry of Education, through the NG-CDF, to build more classrooms for JSS. It is doing quite well and with the partnership of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), I am very sure by the time they will be in Grade Nine, the classrooms will be ready. Thanks to the Kenya Kwanza Government. I know the President did not touch on issues of the elderly, but I want to state that they are well taken care of. We did registration in September and they were all registered. In January, they will be receiving their dues. We have streamlined the Inua Jamii Programme. Under the Kenya Kwanza Government, the Inua Jamii Programme is receiving money before any other civil servant has received the money and that is an achievement. I also want to say that the ICT hubs will be in every ward. Every ward of this Republic of Kenya will have an ICT hub where our young men and women can go with their innovation and make a livelihood for themselves. This is an achievement too. I know my time is up but not yet... I also want to commend the Hustler Fund; it is a success story where Ksh6.6 billion has been borrowed."
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