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    "id": 1451690,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna West, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Masara",
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    "content": "CDF should be part of our Constitution. We are happy you are sitting on the Chair of the Speaker today. You are one of the few lawyers who are respected in Kenya and internationally. Kindly, champion for this noble Fund so that one, it can be increased, and two, its details can be entrenched in the Constitution. I know everybody is not sure what will happen in this country tomorrow. As a believer - because I go to church every now and then and I pray often because I want to go to heaven - I know nothing happens without a purpose. The Generation Zs were brought by God himself to wake up the leaders from their slumber. Let us start reasoning as Kenyans. Let us not reason the way we reasoned before when we used to say that this Member belonged to Kenya Kwanza Coalition and the other Member belonged to Azimio Coalition and yet, when people are taxed, it is not only the people from Kenya Kwanza who are taxed, but everybody. Let there be equity. It is high time it goes on record that I support the “one man, one vote, one shilling” call. However, before that is done, we want tarmac roads that are in other areas to be done in areas where there is none. There should be Level 6 hospitals in every region. We, the people of Nyanza, demand that the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital be made a Level 6 hospital. It is high time we are given a Level 6 hospital. We have been going to Eldoret, Nairobi and other areas with our sick people for a long time, and we cannot manage that cost anymore. Many of our people are dying. We need equity in this country. We want universities to be in all areas. When money is taken as a loan on behalf of this country for projects, the projects should be done across the country so that every person enjoys. Where I come from, there is a road from Masara to Miuru which was started when the former Prime Minister, Hon. Raila Odinga, was in charge of the Ministry of Roads and it has stalled. There is another road going to Sori, which has stalled. There is a road, Kababu-Piny Oyie- Kopanga Road, which is very important in joining Kenya and Tanzania through Kopanga Border Point. The NG-CDF has bought land for immigration at Kopanga. That road needs to be tarmacked so that when I am asked to pay taxes on behalf of my people and my family, I do not cry because I know I will be seeing the fruits of my tax. Finally, I want to request the President not to recycle leaders. The young people have talked. We want young and fresh people who have worked in the corporate world to manage our ministries, so that we can get results. We do not want to see somebody being moved from one ministry to another and yet, they do not perform. It is high time we give other people a chance to perform. Somebody may actually believe that were it not for being given a chance while at the age of 24 years to lead, the people of Suna West would not be enjoying what they are enjoying today. So, it is high time we listened to our people. Let us listen to those young people because they are the future leaders. Whatever we are doing today, we are doing it for them. So, when they speak, we need to listen to them. We should not ignore them. We should not brand them as criminals. They are Kenyans. Criminals are in courts and jail. Those are educated young people who are hopeless. Some of them graduated 10 years ago and they have not yet been employed. Some of them their time to marry has come, but they have not married because they do not have money to marry. Thank you."
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