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    "id": 1502482,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Nimrod Mbai",
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    "content": "Kenyans elected President William Ruto. We all know him. We heard him speaking to the country here the other day. From the afternoon, we have listened to the Hon. Members who are elected by the people to this House. Speaker after speaker has positively commended what the President has done. We have a nation. Truthfully – and not the truth of the truthful man - there is a narrative by the media and activists out there. They have created another Ruto that they want to scare Kenyans with. Ruto was here, speaking to the nation. This is Parliament. We have listened to Members who are elected by the people of Kenya. They are happy with what the President has presented before the country. For example, Kenya is a working nation. The President has elaborated his plans of creating a working environment for Kenyans, especially the youth, to create wealth without looking for employment. Young men, by using the internet and a laptop, can make money instead of going round with CVs looking for jobs. What else would we expect from a President if that is not good enough? Talking of the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), we know that no country can raise enough money to sustain itself. Even the great economy of America borrows from China. They have a loan from the Chinese. If we borrowed to some point and we still needed more money to grow our economy, we still have to turn to PPPs. There is an ideology which came into my mind when the President was talking about PPPs. Let us take an example of a fresh graduate of medicine from a university. That young man may not be interested in employment, but creating his business. Through PPPs and the Government coming in as a guarantor, the young man can get medical equipment and space to open his or her hospital facility. He or she can apply what they learnt in school and employ others instead of going around looking for jobs. He can become an employer through PPPs. Our people need to understand this new term. People out there, especially media owners, have editorial policies of shaping a wrong Ruto to Kenyans and yet, we know the right Ruto understands where he is taking this nation. I urge leaders that it is high time we listened to the President because we are representing the people. Let us get out there. The media is not louder than us and cannot get to the villages better than us. Let us get there and talk to our people about Taifa Care and that the Social Health Authority (SHA) is working. My cousin had a bill of Ksh50,000. It was cleared through SHA. What else would we expect? I can see that my time is about to lapse. Allow me to say something about democracy. His Excellency President William Ruto has put the democracy of our country on another level. This country can never turn back to dictatorship. We have seen the President ceding ground on some issues that Kenyans have complained about. The President dropped a whole Finance Bill just because he listened to Kenyans. He also dropped the Adani deals because Kenyans had issues with them. Add me one minute, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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