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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turbo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Janet Sitienei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the rest of the Members who have spoken before me. At the outset, I want to applaud His Excellency the President for articulately prosecuting the journey of transformation in this country, which is realistic as evidenced by his commitment to live up to the Kenya Kwanza plans despite the myriad challenges that he encountered when he set into office. On the agricultural sector, I really thank the President. He has gone along to support the farmers through the subsidised fertiliser because deep down in his heart, he had food security in mind. He wanted to ensure there was food security in this country so that people can move on with their development agenda. He subsidised fertiliser from Ksh6,500 to Ksh2,500 per bag, which was key in enhancing food production. That is why today our farmers have food full in their stores and they have enough to sell to the market at a cost of Ksh4,000 per bag. At the moment because there is surplus of food, we are having the price of maize at Ksh70 per 2kg gorogoro unlike what people are saying. Those who are complaining do not know because many of them are not in the production line. He also ensured that farmers, through his leadership, were enrolled through the digital register. There were people who were employed to enrol them and put them in the register so that every farmer can access subsidised fertiliser. That is for all my sister to note. In the dairy industry, he has ensured that there will be milk coolers for every dairy and, therefore, our dairy farmers are going to market their milk without challenges. I also applaud the President on the UHC because at the outset, he looked at the preventive, promotive and the palliative healthcare. He has ensured that every Kenyan through the UHC, is going to access comprehensive and quality healthcare. He has also ensured that those CHPs) who are helping us in our communities have got some stipend to do what we call promotive healthcare. He has ensured that 100,000 of them have been employed under the AfyaNyumbani Programme. Each CHP will attend to 100 households. Therefore, I applaud him for ensuring that the country is going to be digitised very soon. That will ensure that there is efficiency in our governments. There has been a lot of challenges in our governments in terms of work. This digitisation is going to ensure that there is efficiency and accountability. We really thank the President in trying to reduce the Eurobond debt. There is a Swahili proverb that says “ Dawa ya deni ni kulipa ”. He has tried to reduce the Eurobond debt by about Ksh300 million and this will go a long way in stabilising the economy of our country. I also thank the President because he has assured us of security in the country, especially in the former provinces of North Eastern, Rift Valley, parts of Eastern and Coast. He has been very decisive on this through the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration. We have seen calm in those regions that had conflict because of banditry."
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