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"speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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"content": "Addresses. If I was to candidly advise the President, I would request him to sack whoever wrote this State of the Nation Address. It does not speak to the matters the President ought to address under Article 132(c) of the Constitution. The matters the President is required to address are matters regarding national values and principles of governance and how his regime has complied with them. If you look at this State of Nation Address by the President, it is about what the President imagines as his achievements. You would think the President is giving himself a scorecard in terms of what he has done, not in terms of how his regime is securing the full realisation of the national values and principles of governance. If I were to refer colleagues and Parliament to Article 10, those national values and principles of governance are set out in Sub- Article 2. They are patriotism, national unity, sharing and devolution of power, the rule of law, democracy and participation of the people, human dignity, equity, social justice, inclusiveness, equality, human rights, non-discrimination and protection of the marginalised. In addition, we have good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability. It is, therefore, not sufficient for the President to tell us, for instance, that his regime has secured the employment of 56,000 teachers. That one is the duty of Government. These teachers are being paid by taxes raised by Kenyans. What we want to hear from the President is how these 56,000 teachers have been distributed across the country in a manner that secures those ideals under national values. I can tell you that there are parts of this country where teachers have been employed up to teachers who graduated in 2022. If you go to constituencies like mine, I have teachers who are retiring without having ever been employed. These are the skewed things the national values and principles of governance wanted to do away with. You saw a short while back even politicians distributing TSC employment forms in our constituencies and you get two or three people being sent. So, the Government is interfering with even the independence of the TSC in securing these national values relating to equity and fairness. This is what we should be talking about. Just a short while back in terms of inclusiveness, non-discrimination and equity, we were here with the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury and National Planning confirming the last employment of KRA officers went largely to two regions, the others were just droppings here and there. I can confirm in Homa Bay Town none at all. These are the matters the President ought to address, it is not a matter of telling us that the UDA government or Kenya Kwanza is going this direction. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is one thing to say that the regime is successful and quite another to be realistic. When you say, for instance that from the Hustler Fund, a Kenyan has borrowed Ksh714,000 but that person is still in a call with the President asking the President to raise the Fund so that he can buy a tuk tuk, what does it tell you? The Hustler Fund has failed. If you have borrowed up to Ksh714,00 you should buy very many tuk tuks. What is this system that can keep you borrowing but cannot enable you to invest? These are the things we are talking about."
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