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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kamama",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Higher Education, Science and Technology",
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        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for granting me the opportunity to really contribute on this very special Motion. I totally support the Presidential Address to the nation. I want to say that the Speech was brilliant, excellent and it reminds us of what the President has done for the last nine or 10 years. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to thank the President for his exposition especially on the issue of infrastructure and I want to concentrate on LAPSSET. If anything else will be forgotten in terms of what hon. Kibaki has achieved, the issue of road development will never be forgotten. I want to support His Excellency the President for coming up with the LAPSSET project which is the most expensive project in the entire continent. This project will cost about Kshs1.5 trillion. It is the only project implemented since the beginning of the Mombasa-Kisumu Railway line. That was about 100 years ago. We have taken too long to actually develop that part of the country. The northern part of the country has been forgotten for a long time and LAPSSET will actually open the entire region, in addition to benefiting the East African Community which we really support because of our integration. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support the President for coming up with that project but I want to encourage our President and the entire region to support diplomatic efforts in dealing with the Sudan issue. As we speak now, we have a problem in Southern Sudan and Northern Sudan. The conflict in those countries will affect the entire region. So, we need diplomatic efforts to go a notch higher in solving this matter diplomatically so that the two countries do not go to war. The construction of the Thika Highway, the Isiolo-Moyale Road and the Standard Railway gauge from Mombasa to Malaba are welcome developments. I want to really go into the substantive issue, and that is the CDF. The President actually gave accolades to Members of Parliament who have implemented CDF projects. I want to urge Kenyans and this House to support this initiative because this country is jinxed. When you come up with a new invention like the CDF that was brought to this House by hon. Muriuki from Ol Kalou--- The CDF has really revolutionized development in this country. As a person who comes from the remotest part of this country--- I come from the third constituency from Sudan; after Mr. Ethuro’s place and Mr. Nanok’s, the next one is mine. I managed to put up 80 primary schools through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF)."
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