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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to give thanks to the Address of His Excellency the President. This was one Address that gave the country a new face. The President told us that the country is starting on a new trajectory as it moves from where it has been to a better place where every Kenyan will start to appreciate what is happening in the Government. The President analysed all the pillars that needed to be touched so that we can move forward as a country. One of the pillars he touched on was food security. It is critical in ensuring that people have food on their tables. The other pillar was UHC. He rebranded it to Taifa Care, which is a better name to move with. I want to tell you that those who registered with SHIF are starting to see how it works. I want to tell every Member of Parliament here that it is our responsibility to ensure that our people register with SHIF so that we actualise Article 43 of the Constitution. I call upon the civil society that has been fighting for provision of health care to appreciate it. The civil society has been urging that the country adheres to the Maputo Protocol and all other related protocols that we are party to. It is time we actualised Article 43 of the Constitution. Therefore, we must work together. We must see where the problem is. Let us first register Kenyans. We will then face the Government if it fails to offer medical care to the already registered people. That is the point where we should pick a fight with the Government. If we have to criticise the Government, we should criticise it in a positive way so that things work for our country. If things work in the country, it means they are working for all of us. The President also talked about femicide. Even as we start the 16 days of activism and campaign against gender-based violence, I remember a vulnerable family in Dagoretti North that lost a girl. She was a third-year student at the Mount Kenya University. She is called Vivian Kajaya. We buried her. This girl’s mum was in Kawangware. Imagine knowing that your daughter is in Mount Kenya University but you find her body in Nakuru. That was the saddest thing ever to happen to that family. Yesterday, again, other cases of femicide were reported. So, I laud the President. All the agencies that are dealing with these cases have, indeed, let us down. In fact, my prayer is that their officers should be taken for re-training in order for them to understand femicide. We have officers who, when they talk about gender-based violence, you will realise that they think it is a crime just like any other crime. We have lost so many women and it is not fair even for us as a country. The other thing that I want to really thank the President for is bringing out everything that the Government has done so far. We have decided as a country to be very negative. There is nothing good we see. We are not realising that… If you look at Burundi and Nigeria now, you will end up thanking God 10 times for our country, Kenya. So, I want to tell Kenyans out there and those of us who go to the media to discuss politics, that the President was following whatever was happening with the Adani deal and he decided to cancel it. We should be appreciating that the Adani deal has been cancelled instead of starting to question, again. We need to be questioning how we will get a new airport so that we can be like Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania that have made progress. With those few remarks, I want to thank God for what He has given us. We are better and we can do better. Kenya is great."
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