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    "id": 1357938,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "2. The 10th Annual Report on the Progress made in Fulfilling the International Obligations of the Republic of Kenya; and, 3. The Annual Report to Parliament on the State of National Security. Hon. Speaker, as indicated, His Excellency the President gave his State of the Nation Address last week on Thursday. Allow me to thank all Members of Parliament in both Houses, who sat patiently for close to one hour when the President gave his State of the Nation Address. I must also appreciate His Excellency the President for noting in his opening statement that he was coming before the democratically elected representatives of the people to discharge his constitutional mandate under Article 132(1)(c) of the Constitution. He stated that he was coming to give an account to the people of Kenya on measures taken by their Government, under his leadership, to give full expression and effect to the soul of our constitutional dispensation by implementing our national values and principles of governance set out in Article 10 of our Constitution. I take this opportunity to commend the President for noting that he was not only playing his role as a leader charged under our Constitution to deliver a certain mandate and certain reports to the House and the people of Kenya through their elected representatives, but that he was also being accountable to Kenyans on the progress that has been made by his administration and Government. I noted with excitement and satisfaction that we have a President who appreciates that this is a Government that belongs to the people of Kenya. In his opening statement, he spoke about measures being taken by the people's Government. He said, “…the measures taken by their Government...” It is the people's Government – under his leadership. I, therefore, take this opportunity to commend His Excellency the President for recognising that he is only one amongst equals, not just the leaders who serve our nation, but also the people of Kenya, who have bestowed him with a unique and great responsibility of leading a Government that belongs to them. For that, I commend His Excellency the President and his administration. The President went to great lengths to not only speak to the progress made so far in terms of realising our national values and principles of governance, but also in the realisation of all the pledges and commitments made by the President and the Kenya Kwanza Government to the people of Kenya. The President took us back to where he took over the reins of leadership on 13th September 2023, noting that he needed to undertake an urgent transformation of our economy to stop and reverse the negative sense of runaway unemployment. He described this as a yawning inequality and widespread poverty which denied millions of Kenyans the ability to prosper by extinguishing their dignity and dreams of living in a country, they are not proud of."
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