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    "id": 1501705,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1501705/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipkelion West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hilary Kosgei",
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    "content": " Thank you for giving me this opportunity to record my thanks on the President’s Speech in the State of the Nation Address. It is important to know where we as a country came from. Everything was collapsing when the President took over this country. The economy was on its knees. Agriculture was on its knees. Every other sector was collapsing. What the President did was to first revive the economy. According to his speech, even Dollar reserves have risen from US$2.4 billion to US$9.4 billion. Inflation has come down from 8.7 per cent to 2.7 per cent. Generally, the economy is on good footing. This President is handling a task that is equivalent to what the late Hon. Mwai Kibaki handled when he took over the country. The late President Kibaki called upon Kenyans with “tulipe ushuru tujitegemee”. He rallied the country around Vision 2030. This President has laid the foundation. The cost of living has come down. Farmers are earning. The biased media has not stopped nagging the good progress we are making. The headline of The Standard Newspaper today is reporting that this Parliament is about to enact regulations to make farming very difficult. I want to tell The Standard Newspaper that farming is becoming more profitable. Seventeen sugar industries are being revived. We are in the next few years turning this country from a sugar-importing one to a sugar-exporting country. Things are moving well. The biased media will not report that companies like the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) known to be making losses are working. For the first time, under this"
}