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    "id": 1502228,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502228/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uasin Gishu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gladys Boss",
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    "content": "strengthened from Ksh162 to the dollar to Ksh129 today? Yes or no? Let us look at the cost of living. Has inflation dropped from 9.6 to 2.7? Every Kenyan knows the price of unga has gone down, the price of kerosene has gone down, and the price of electricity has gone down. Those media houses should tell us where they are getting their statistics and what the source of their information is. Also, I dare them, those unpatriotic Kenyans and the unpatriotic media houses: has 6.5 million bags of fertiliser been distributed to the registered farmers? Yes or no? We know for a fact that farmers have received it. I dare them to tell us where they think the fertiliser was not given. Also, towards food security, today they can use their investigative journalists to go to the stores and find that we have 47 million bags of maize, 8.8 million bags of beans and 10.4 million bags of wheat in our reserves. I dare them to dispute this, and we want them to go and film them from the stores rather than speak from their studios. I also dare them: do they dispute the fact that KCC received Ksh3 billion to modernise? Do they dispute the fact that today farmers are being paid Ksh50 per litre of milk? I am a farmer, and that is the amount I am receiving. I dare those media houses to tell us if they have any milk to sell and how much they sell it to KCC. I dare them to dispute the fact that KCC is now processing 220,000 litres of milk a day, up from 100,000 litres. I dare them to dispute the fact that the sex semen is now going for Ksh2,900. Those of us who are dairy farmers were buying it for Ksh9,000 before. I want those media houses to again tell us whether or not 56,000 teachers have been hired. They know they have, and that list is available at the Teacher Service Commission (TSC). They should stop peddling lies and misinforming Kenyans about the State of the Nation Address. Again, regarding the funding model, they can confirm that students are now getting up to 95 per cent funding of their school fees. Again, they can get the statistics from the Higher Education Fund and the Higher Education Loans Board. They cannot be making up stories from their screens. On healthcare, we know that they are telling Kenyans that they are being charged a lot for the SHIF. However, they are not telling Kenyans that those on a higher pay are the ones who are paying, so that the vulnerable and needy can access healthcare, unlike before. I also dare those who said that the NHIF debts have not been settled. Ksh3.7 billion was disbursed, and earlier, another Ksh5 billion was settled. On the Hustler Fund, again, this is available information, Ksh60 billion has already benefited over 24 million Kenyans. Therefore, as we look at the President's State of the Nation Address, it is important that we call out those unpatriotic Kenyans and unpatriotic media houses that are selling negative, toxic narratives…"
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