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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Nyachae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Roads and Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 342,
        "legal_name": "Simeon Nyachae",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if my colleague, hon. Raila, wants go give himself credit, that is a different matter! But the truth of the matter is that when he left--- I also was a Minister there! It is me who was processing some of these things! They have not been completed by my successor! Therefore, let us not take credit individually. We should take credit in the name of the Government. That is what is happening. It is the present Government which is doing it. We should be realistic about some of these things. Let us be appreciative of what is being done. If the previous Government started it, it is the responsibility of the present Government to continue doing it! If the present Government did not like Nyanza, it should have stopped those programmes. But the programme is continuing. Let us appreciate that! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we move around the country, we either see electricity being put up in the rural areas or poles being delivered to those areas. What we need to do here is to give the Ministry more encouragement to continue with the job! It should give us more power. We should negotiate for more funding. For me, I stand here to request for additional funding, because for us to deal even with the problem of unemployment, we need the Jua Kali sector to be established in the rural areas, not only in urban centres. For Jua Kali to succeed, we need electricity so that our young boys and girls can do welding and some repairs using electricity. That is an important item in our lives and for building the economic well-being of individuals in the rural areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know, in the past, in the area where I come from, if somebody had an injury and needed an operation, he had to be driven all the way to Kisii Town, despite the fact that, some of the clinical officers could do that job. But in the absence of electricity, they could not do it. So, a person had to get a vehicle to take the injured person all the way to Kisii Town. But now, it can be done in health centres because there is electricity. There are medicines which cannot be stored in the rural areas unless there are refrigerators to keep them. Otherwise, they will go bad. But now, they can be stored in those areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my friend who spoke before me, and I can see that he is very amused over there--- He is my brother! I want to remind him that he comes from a constituency that has benefitted from this Ministry in a very big way. The project---"
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