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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Manduku",
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        "legal_name": "Hezron Manduku",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me also say a few words on the Presidential Speech. The Speech was very elaborate. It had the programme of what needs to be done to develop this country. We should also congratulate the President for keeping the peace in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the President should be commended for allowing democracy in this country. Unfortunately, some people want to abuse that democracy. We should support that democracy. In that respect, I would like to say that, because of good management by the President and the Government, a lot of development has been realised within the last two years. That development is more than what we have realised in the last 40 years since Independence. You can see what has been done in our rural areas today. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should commend the introduction of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). At least now, people can say that the Government has done something for them. There are places where we never saw rural access roads. Those roads are now being rehabilitated by funds from CDF. Some schools did not have classrooms built using bricks. In many areas, school children were infested with jiggers because of dusty classrooms. Jiggers harbour and reproduce in the dust. As such, we used to have children with deformed feet. I am talking as a doctor now! If you look at their toes, they are deformed. But with the CDF, we are, at least, able to build classrooms without dust. We now have staff rooms. We also have some"
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