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    "id": 1356955,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Elgeyo Marakwet County, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Caroline Ng’elechei",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Kindly forgive my colleague because he feels that he should have exhausted his allotted minutes of debate. The unpopular path that I was explaining is that many people would like to be told lies or hear sugar-coated information. The President has chosen not to subsidise consumption, rather subsidise production. He will be unpopular to some in the beginning, but in the end many will enjoy the fruits. It will be a truthful way of dealing with Kenyans. People wanted him to subsidise the cost of unga in the beginning, but he chose to subsidise production by ensuring that farmers were empowered to produce more food. I am happy that this year, we will realise a bumper harvest in the country and provide food to our people because of fertiliser subsidies. I appreciate the President’s decision to subsidise fertilisers for farmers which ensured that fish farmers also enjoy farming. The President told us in his speech how the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs is setting up 22 new fish landing sites in nine counties in Nyanza and in the Coast region. This will not only ensure that we produce food, but we also provide farmers with income. Some people used to depend on fishing but fish farming went down because of lack of support from the previous Government. I can attest that the President has tried to ensure that there is security in the North Rift. I come from Elgeyo Marakwet, where we have been crying. I have constantly talked about banditry, but for the past six months we have started realising that we have a new Government in place. The people of the Kerio Valley have started living like other people in Kenya. They can now engage in their day-to-day operations without a lot of interference. All that is because of the President’s intervention. He went out of his way to deploy the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to help police in the Kerio Valley. 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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