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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to add my voice to the debate on the President’s Speech. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, Americans were faced with serious economic challenges. The then President Franklin D. Roosevelt came out with a speech to calm an anxious nation. He said that their values had shrunk to fantastic levels, their taxes had risen and their ability to pay had fallen. He said that the Government found itself with serious curtailment of income and the means of exchange was frozen in all fronts and areas of trade. He finally told them that the American people had nothing to fear but fear itself. Americans realised the enormous task that their President had and decided to rally to a man to assist the President to get America out of the Great Depression in response to their President’s Speech. Our country’s situation is not unique. Kenyans must remember that the Kenya Kwanza administration took over power when the economy was in the “Intensive Care Unit” (ICU). The President, being the surgeon that he is, started work immediately to remove the economy from the “ICU” to the “High Dependency Unit” (HDU), and is now stabilising it in the “wards’. He started by cutting excessive spending by Ksh300 billion in the First Supplementary Estimates. He also moved the country away from subsidising consumption towards subsidising production. That is why we see successes in agriculture, where we subsidised fertilisers to Ksh2,500 per bag. Kenyan farmers went to their farms and produced 200,000 more bags than in previous years. The President informed Kenyans in his Speech of the current economic situation and the measures that he is adopting to ensure that the “patient”, which is the economy, is removed from the “ward” and released. As we contribute to debate on the President’s Speech, I call on Kenyans to trust their President to remove them from economic hardships. These economic hardships were put on us by the excess spending of the previous Government. It is known all over. Social media recently reported on leaking roofs at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). The current Cabinet Secretary for Roads, Transport, and Public Works, Mr Kipchumba Murkomen, is blamed instead of blaming the “tender-preneurs” who had captured the previous regime and implemented that project. We need to be candid and tell people that the President is cleaning up the mess that was created by the previous regime. That will form the foundation for progress of the Republic of Kenya. I assure Kenyans that this country shall rise and it shall be good. The President touched on certain areas in his Speech. First, we passed four healthcare Bills that will transform the health sector and remove cartels, who are used to reaping Kenyan The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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