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    "id": 1357957,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I note the thanks of the House on the President’s State of the Nation Address by noting the President's emphasis on transformation. Transformation is underway. A President gives hope to his nation. A President looks at the sunny side of things for the country and President William Ruto did just that when he came to this House to deliver his State of the Nation Address. Given the many things that he has done cumulatively, there is hope for this country. A hope that his BETA is going to transform this country and put it on the steady. This country is looking forward to better days than where we have come from. So, I commend the President for this speech. It is a speech filled with hope and promise. It is also a speech filled with important items and activities that he has undertaken in the first one year to ensure that the country has been put on the steady. One of the most important things that I thought I picked in this speech is that BETA is not just about economic transformation, but it is also about, as he sets it in his fourth paragraph, about social justice. It is about inclusivity, democracy and protection of the marginalised. Very many people did not go into the depth of what BETA is about. It is about social justice. Very many people in this country have suffered under state apparatus in this country. We heard about the many killings that were being undertaken by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI). We heard about the River Yala bodies. We heard about people being killed by instruments of Government. BETA has brought that protection of the marginalised, protection of human rights and protection of the state of Kenya and the people that live within it. As we talk about transformation, we are not just transforming the country economically, but also transforming social justice, the fight against corruption in this country, and bringing law and order. I am sure very many people were surprised when the President fired some of the officers in Government. Some of them were taken to court very fast on allegations of corruption. Something that we have not seen, that used to drag investigations for many years in the past. We have seen what BETA also means in the social justice sector."
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