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    "id": 228600,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sirma",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Musa Cherutich Sirma",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said before, the Speech by His Excellency the President was well written. But what we want to see is action. We are always given statements in this country and promised all manner of niceties but the reality of those words are not seen by Kenyans. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to talk about local authorities. I am happy because His Excellency the President talked about a Bill that will provide for direct election of mayors, deputy mayors and chairmen of county councils. I hope the Leader of Government Business will expedite that, so that we can get that Bill immediately. We are tired of councillors being locked up in lodgings. They have, for a long time, been blackmailing their voters. They do not elect people of credence. They elect people who pay them better. The local authorities have been mismanaged in the past and even now. It is high time wananchi got their own people to whom they can entrust that responsibility. I also want to commend the Minister for Local Government for making Nairobi City clean. He has done a good job. That is the way forward. We should maintain such standards in our local authorities. Mr. Speaker, Sir, His Excellency the President also touched on the dairy, pyrethrum and cereals sub-sectors. Yesterday, the Minister promised that Kshs1.2 billion will be released to pay maize farmers. I hope that, that is true because such statements are always made. Ministers in this Government are not serious. They always speak good words in this House but, when they go out there, they speak the opposite. Other hon. Members have spoken about the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya (PBK). The Minister has no authority to suspend the people that we elected to serve in the PBK. It is illegal. That is the mandate of wananchi who elected those leaders, and not the Minister. The Minister should suspend the people he appointed, but not the people who were elected by"
}