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    "id": 229518,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 230,
        "legal_name": "Peter Gichohi Muriithi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to see Kenyans in Nyeri improve their living standards. You will be surprised that the Provincial Lands Board has so many cases pending, resulting in people killing others and fights within families, because of unresolved disputes. There is need for tribunals to be set up and start working to avoid bloodshed. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on roads, the Ministry is doing extremely well, but its efforts still leave a lot to be desired. Last year, I requested that the Government works closely with the Kenya Army and the National Youth Service. It has been done before and it can be done now. Why not deploy the army and the National Youth Service to supplement the efforts of the Government in construction of good roads? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on health, there is a big improvement on the availability of drugs. But the structures are still the same. In Nyeri Provincial General Hospital, we do not have X-ray services. I have been singing and singing about it, and the Permanent Secretary has been telling me that the service is coming soon. Now it has become a song; every day I wake up and sing: \"It is coming:. It is very expensive. My constituents come to my house with small sheets of paper indicating that the needed X-ray costs more than Kshs6,000. If you get ten of those chits everyday and you multiply them by 30 days, does that not take away the salary I get? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other day, we watched television and saw the Minister for Health saying she has never known that there are Kenyans suffering from jiggers. Surely, she has totally failed because it is her responsibility to ensure that Kenyans are not infected by jiggers apart from Mr. Kamangu. Anybody else should not be having jiggers. She should not blame the whole Government because she is also part of the Government! I am in this Government, but I am not a Minister. So, why should she say the Government has failed? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on security---- 102 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES March 22, 2007"
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