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    "id": 1501715,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bureti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kibet Komingoi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate the President for his Address which captured the mood of the nation very well. Having read the Address, the first few chapters posed questions to see how well we have been able to capture the mood of the country. He mentioned the new university education funding model, the mood of the country concerning the education system, the CBC, the classrooms that are yet to be completed, the difficult life Kenyans are facing under the cost of living, the seemingly no development within the regions and the stalled projects that we have in the country and the Social Health Insurance Fund programme now called Taifa Care. All these questions raised by the President in his Address brought to the fore acknowledgement and the commitment that the nation must continue to encourage itself in its discussion so that we can have meaningful engagement. Combining that with thoughtful responses, the Address brought out what we really need to have and discuss as a nation. This is for the purposes of moving forward, and also bringing all to understand the challenges that we are facing as a country and tackle them. The second issue I would like to raise and which I quite agree with the President is the broad-based government. It is for the inclusion of all for the purposes of serving all. This is to ensure that all people are brought on board to secure this nation in its economic endeavours and the social fabric of this country to be intact, and even the political ideas. It is not only meant for us to agree and be uniform but also to move this country forward so that all of us benefit from the programmes and the policies of the Kenya Kwanza government. I quite agree with the President that what is good for the nation is also good for each and every section, ethnic community and region of this country. Moving forward, we need to harness our efforts and vision together to build one nation. On the question of food security and the stability of our rural economies, we realise that for us to be able to grow our rural economies, we must invest more in agriculture. In the sugar sector, as it was pronounced, 17 factories have been revived. And soon we shall be sugar sufficient and ready to export even sugar. We should move also to other sectors of our economy. I have in mind tea production in this country. We should be able to harness and bring together our farmers. We should also bring together agricultural policies to support our farmers, especially in the tea and coffee sectors. In the tea industry, some factories are old from the mzungu days. The government should look into all these aspects improve and modernise them so that our people may grow tea that benefits them. That way, the efforts and determination of our farmers will translate to money in their pockets. There is insecurity in the coffee regions, especially the theft of coffee. There must be integrated policies on security for our farmers and their produce so that they can secure their products. In my constituency, there is a coffee farm and a coffee pulping station that was invaded and two people were killed. Because of that, we must harness and bring together all policies to secure the farmer, the produce and the livelihood of the people so that we can continue to secure the lives of our people. Today, they will be holding a fundraising for the funeral expenses."
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