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    "id": 1501754,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jane Kagiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the State of the Nation Address. I want to start by appreciating the President for indicating he is listening to Kenyans. As he went on with his Speech, it confirmed that, true to his word, he is actually a listening President. I want to start with the CBC. Many of us in this House and outside there assume that the CBC is not working. However, I recently visited Mombasa and took a boat ride. When we got to the middle of the ocean, the captain asked if anyone was ready to dive into the water. Three young boys quickly shouted that they were CBC students and knew how to swim. They gladly jumped into the water, swam and returned to the boat. That should confirm that the students are benefiting from that curriculum and that they are growing and progressing as they should. We need to ensure that we give them the required facilities and that teachers are available to guide them through their education. Secondly, I appreciate that the President took time to mention the reality of this country. We are still heavily in debt, and we need to appreciate that things are not as they should be. We want a lot of development, but just like in our homes, when we are in debt, there are some things we have to sacrifice because we cannot get everything we want. That calls for the whole country to understand that when debts mature, we have to prioritise them for payment, which results in our country suffering in various ways. I want to mention our food production and the fact that our Government has provided over 7 million bags of fertiliser to our farmers. That has graduated to giving us 74 million bags of food this year. That is our projection. Our country consumes around 52 million bags of food per year. That confirms that our country is headed towards becoming a maize exporter in the near future. That is growth and progress for our country. Taifa Care reminds me of when we were in school. We had classmates who would convince us that studying was not good, but they would study at night and succeed. If we look at the benefits of SHA for our people compared to the NHIF, it caters for patients from Level 1 hospitals, while the NHIF could only cater to patients from Level 4 hospitals upwards. That means that a person from a place called Gatero in my county does not need to travel to Nyahururu for treatment. They can go to the nearest dispensary, get treated and return home. They would have saved on transport and time."
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