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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to contribute to the debate on the Presidential Address. The Address by the President was quite elaborate, very consistent and, particularly focused on Vision 2030. The President expounded, quite consistently, the various arms around Vision 2030 and the biggest projects that the Government has earmarked for financing under the Vision 2030. Even looking at what the Government has achieved so far, particularly since the former NARC Government came to power, and especially in the area of infrastructure, nobody can stand firmly to contradict the achievement that this Government has realized. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, if these efforts had been sustained over the immediate past years, there is no doubt that this country would have achieved much more in its development efforts. Nonetheless, it is also true that since the last election in the year 2007, the country has been faced with serious challenges. Of particular concern is the political instability that is evident in the paralysed Government. What we are seeing, even after the formation of the Grand Coalition Government, is that rather than work together, the two arms of the Government are pulling in different directions. Much as they try to make it appear to Kenyans that, that scenario has no impact on development efforts, Kenyans are not convinced. What a paralysed government can achieve is far much less. If the energy that is being wasted through the prevailing rivalry in the Grand Coalition Government could be used wisely, the Government would achieve a lot more in terms of development. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, these challenges are also coming at a time when the challenges to development are becoming even more acute, particularly from the world economic crisis. Looking at the challenges that have affected our country, we have been told, time and again, that the performance of the tourism industry has dramatically gone down; there has been a decline of tourism in the country. Export crops such as tea, coffee and horticulture are also bound to be adversely affected as the export market becomes affected. Even remittances from Kenyans in the"
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