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    "id": 1358152,
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    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Irene Mayaka",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will give my remarks in terms of a scorecard of 90 to 10 per cent, where 10 per cent means what went well and 90 per cent is what did not go well with the State of the Nation Address. I think Hon. Osoro pre-empted what I need to say. There was a trending video of the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee of Communication, Information and Innovation, Hon. John Kiarie, saying how the President was conversant with the teleprompter. I will award him 5 marks for that. By using the teleprompter and not papers, the President saved half a tree. The President also spoke about the bottom-up agenda. I will give him 5 marks for this because it is true that our taxes have moved from bottom to up. The Kenyan Shilling and the cost of living have moved from bottom to up. The President is very right that he is focused on his bottom-up agenda. For that, I will award him 5 marks. On the 90 per cent of what went wrong in that speech, I expected to hear a lot about the macro-economic issues we have in this country. Our inflation is at a bad rate. The Central Bank base lending rate is doing badly. I wanted the President to give us a clear picture of this because numbers never lie. The cost of living is a cause of worry for all of us, including those of us who are seeking re-election in 2027. You will have tough conversations with Kenyans explaining to them the cost of living. The other day, I went to the washrooms at an eatery and there were some young ladies seated there. If I may quote what they were saying: ‘ Unajua tunaogopa Serikali hii kwa sababuinaweza kuja kutax hata sisi tunaoosha choo .’ That is the kind of conversation that is going on out there. Kenyans are worried. Things are not looking good and we need to stop painting this rosy picture of giving people hope like Mexican soap operas. This is not a Mexican soap opera. Things are bad in this country. The other day, we were being told that now a young person who turns 18 years will spend Ksh1,000 instead of Ksh200 to get an Identity Card (ID). I want to tell Members that come 2027, since they are now saying replacing ID will cost Ksh2,000, the people who are supposed to vote for them will all say that their IDs are lost so that they give them Ksh2,000 to get new ones. You are not seeing the harm this is going to do to us. On the tangible results that were shared and the state of the economy, I want to refer to the third paragraph of the President’s Address, where he said that immediately after he was sworn in, he undertook to ensure urgent transformation of the economy. But the economy of this country is actually falling faster than my mammary glands. That is how bad things are in this country. We need to put things into perspective and tell Kenyans the truth. We cannot have a one-hour and six-minute speech giving us hope but not telling us the true state of our country. We live in a country where the international airport is leaking. I saw a Twitter fight between Hon. Sen. Cherargei and Cabinet Secretary Murkomen. Children of the Kenya Kwanza Government are literally eating each other. Why are you going to social media to tell us about the bad things that are going on?"
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