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    "id": 1357985,
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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": "The President was not shy to let us know that we are working in very difficult situations. Difficult situations at home and abroad. Difficult situations that are exasperated by the conditions of drought that have prevailed for several years ahead of these rains that we are experiencing today. The situation globally is also affecting the economy of this country. There are wars all over, which have interrupted the supply chains. There is also the situation with which this Government came to office, and what it found. With all these, as the leader of the land, the President said that he is not here to excuse any failure. He tackled issues head on. One most amazing thing about the presentation of the State of the Nation Address is the style that the President did it. Ahead of his speech, he took time to call numerous Kenyans across the nation to have a candid one-on-one discussion. So, the speech was based on what the people on the streets would call a ‘collabo’ between the President and his people – reporting what the situation on the ground is verbatim. I will take a few moments to just observe some of the sentiments that the President put across. On a very critical sector, the digital economy, the President took time to report on the project called the Digital Superhighway, where the Government intends to roll out 100 kilometres of fibre, establish about 25,000 Wi-Fi hotspots and 1,450 digital innovation hubs around the country. That means if this project takes off, in every single ward of this country, there will be a digital innovation hub. In her contribution, Hon. Dorice Donya asked where the jobs will come from. I want to report here that with the few digital innovation hubs that have been installed around the country, the results are almost immediate. If you go to the one in Nakuru County, you will find that it generates over Ksh6 million daily – money that is earned in US Dollars by young Kenyans who are working round the clock by getting digital jobs from international companies."
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