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    "id": 239374,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Michuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Administration and National Security",
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        "legal_name": "John Njoroge Michuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for granting me this opportunity to make my contribution to this very timely Motion. It is timely because we need the opportunity to look at ourselves against the mirror that we have created. We need time to reassess ourselves as to whether we are moving in the right direction or not. We need time to, as it were, as they say in some churches, for a retreat, where we can argue within ourselves. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are going back to our constituencies during these two months of recess in order to communicate more closely with our constituents. In doing so, I want to expect that we shall all be honest with ourselves to the extent of having to acknowledge the achievements that have been made by the present Government even though some of us are sitting on the opposite side. I do not think it would be honest if one were to tour one's own constituency and not recognise in one form or another publicly, for example, the projects in the constituency that have been financed through the CDF. In so acknowledging this work, we are acknowledging how much we have been able to achieve in this House because it was not until we voted the money that the CDF work was carried out. It is this House that has voted the money. Therefore, you would not be contradicting yourself even if you were in the Opposition, in acknowledging those achievements for example in the field of health as hon. Muturi has said. We have used a lot of money to build dispensaries and even to expand some health centres and hospitals. I agree with that view that these could be white elephants if they do not have the adequate number and right kind of staff including clinical officers and equipment to identify what diseases are prevalent in a given area so that medicine can be shared out more equitably and suitably as well. Mr. Speaker, Sir, so, I am appealing to my colleagues to actually do justice to the achievements that this Government has made all over the country, be it in the areas of agriculture, livestock and in the revival of various projects that \"had died\". The Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) had died. The Kenya Co-operative Creameries (KCC) has been revived and so on and so forth. I think we should acknowledge this development because these are institutions that are going to be in the service of our people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to appeal to my colleagues to ensure that they actually preach to their constituents about community policing. I beg to support."
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