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    "id": 1356792,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwingi West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Charles Nguna",
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    "content": "Let me engage on the Speech. I appreciate his expressions in regard to agriculture. He ensured that farmers have access to subsidised fertilisers. I still need to stress that majority of this country’s agricultural inputs do not rely much on fertilisers. A lot more needs to be done in arid and semi-arid zones. Water provision instead of fertilisers could boost our agricultural productivity. His Excellency the President touched on expansion of post-harvest storage facilities, which has been done. They should be equitably distributed across the country. Only a few areas have experienced the benefits. Post-harvest storage facilities should be established all over the country without discrimination or favour. Community health workers, who have been deployed across the country, are a positive. That is the one thing that I love our President for. The programme should be enhanced to ensure that it is sustainable. There are also issues in education. We have implemented a new curriculum and employed 56,000 new teachers. We need to interrogate the employment of those teachers in terms of ethnic and regional balance, and many other things. There is still bias in employment. There are also stalled infrastructure projects. I recall Cabinet Secretary Murkomen stressing the need to complete stalled projects in this country when he was on the Floor of the House. My constituency is one of the most adversely affected by stalled projects. The Kibwezi– Mutomo–Kitui–Kabati–Migwani–Mbondoni Road, which is supposed to connect eight counties, is among them. The President should come out clearly and explore a good strategy of how to complete stalled projects. I know that this does not only affect Mwingi West Constituency, but the whole country. The previous administration started many projects and if we do not complete them, we will be wasting public resources. We should follow the Vision 2030 Project, which was initiated by President Mwai Kibaki. The President should have clearly explained how we will deal with issues of blackouts. Every Kenyan should be connected to electricity. I did not hear that being mentioned. I agree with the President that we must admit that we have been living large and way beyond our means as a country. Time has come to retire the false comforts and illusionary benefits of wasteful expenditure and counter-productive subsidies and consumption, which have led us to dig ourselves deeper into the hole of avoidable debts."
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