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    "id": 1502429,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1502429/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Limuru, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Eng) John Kiragu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to comment on the Presidential Address. First of all, I want to thank the President for his address. It was a candid address. The President was bold and honest about the issues that the public has been concerned about. This is a President who, not long ago, heard the voice of Gen Zs and the public and actually declined to sign the Finance Bill. He heard the stories about Adani, acted upon them, and cancelled the contracts. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we look forward to our President following through on the issues he has raised. Some of those issues are very important to this nation. On unemployment, he is on record for working very hard not only to create employment locally, but also to find opportunities for our young people to work overseas. On education, he discussed the challenges of the Competence-Based curriculum (CBC) and the Junior Secondary School (JSS), and outlined the measures he is undertaking, particularly on additional physical facilities and teachers who have been recruited to make sure that our education system becomes effective according to the plan. We also know that he has a financing model for universities and his strategy for ensuring that our universities stay healthy in terms of finance and management. On matters of housing, I am here on record because, in Limuru, we have 980 units being built, which has created many employment opportunities for young people. The President's idea of making sure that we remove slums in our cities and the rural areas is the way to go because every citizen in this country deserves good shelter. On matters health, I am happy to report that many people in my area and others have given testimonies about how they have been helped by the Social Health Authority (SHA) and Taifa Care. If our President is one who cares about glorifying himself, maybe, he would have called it Ruto Care. We know that Obama had Obama Care. But I am happy that he has not put his name there. He called it Taifa Care, which is good for this nation. In agriculture, he is on record for having revived 17 factories in the sugar industry, and that is the way to go. To stabilise this country, we need to develop local industries like the sugar industries. I am an ex-employee of Mumias Sugar. I know what Mumias Sugar used to be like"
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