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    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius M’anaiba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me also take cue from the rest and congratulate His Excellency the President of this country for his candid and informative speech that he delivered last week. Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. The President enumerated various successes of his nascent Government. I want to single out one key sector that has benefited immensely under this Government. It is the education sector. One of the Members said that teachers have only been employed as interns and not on permanent and pensionable terms. I want to state categorically that this is wrong. We should give credit where it is due. I have been a teacher. For the last 10 years, the only number of teachers that have been employed in a particular year due to lack of funding was 5,000. This Government has employed a massive 56,000 teachers to serve either on permanent and pensionable terms or as interns. This has a great impact. Some do not understand that most of these employed teachers have been out for 10 years since they completed their teaching courses. This has immensely reduced the burden of paying teachers employed by the Board of Management (BoM) or Parents Teachers Association (PTA), which parents used to carry. This money will now go to other issues. In the same sector, about 8,400 teachers transitioned from one grade to another. They moved from their previous grade to junior secondary schools. This year alone, 36,000 teachers are destined for promotions due by January next year. The agriculture sector has also benefited greatly. Farmers have got subsidised fertiliser. They have also been able to get many milk coolers to cushion them from the vagaries of weather that lead to their milk going bad within a short time. Registration of farmers has been conducted and payments to farmers of coffee were good this year. Another area is the fishing industry. We have seen the President roll out 22 landing sites - even to those challenging his speech - in all the nine counties of Nyanza region. If you look at health, this House has enacted various laws to make sure the sector is streamlined. Some of the areas already done include the Social Health Insurance Act, the Digital Health Act, and the Primary Health Act. Above all, there is the rolling out of 100,000 CHPs in our areas. This is to make sure our population is healthy for the betterment of our economy and their lives. Finally, I implore His Excellency the President of this country to make sure that the barbaric act of cattle rustling in this country is brought to a halt. The pastoral community and areas that do this kind of farming are suffering a lot due to the heinous act of cattle rustling."
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