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    "id": 351510,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for North Horr",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to congratulate you on your election as our Deputy Speaker. I also want to thank the good people of North Horr for electing me for the second time to serve them. It is a big honour. In addition, I really want to thank the people of North Horr for their unwavering resolve that enabled us give leadership to Marsabit County. I support the President’s Address. I really appreciate his focus on the economy and the need to grow it by double digits. It is happening in Ethiopia and so, it can happen here as well. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the programme on youth and women fund is highly welcome. Those funds have been there in the past, but they have not reached our people at the grassroots. Re-modeling it on the CDF framework will enable those resources reach our people and all the 290 constituencies will be targeted. I also support the need to give social protection to the most vulnerable members of society, that is, the youth and women. This is highly welcome. In particular, there is need to modernize our agriculture and focus on irrigation. The President committed to putting one million acres of land under irrigation. I know this can happen. When the Deputy President was Minister for Agriculture, he actually achieved that in Bura and many other areas. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the free health care which is targeted by 2020 is highly welcome. I come from a constituency where we do not have a hospital and a single medical doctor. Coming from that background, I can only say that this is highly welcome. However, I hope that our being given these free services will not result into taxes being increased and prices of basic commodities skyrocketing. I hope it will be free and not at the expense of the taxpayers. On the issue of devolution, I am so glad that the Government is committed and the President has said again and again that he is committed to the full realization of devolution. This is a constitutional reality but, so far, it has been just lip service. Our governors have no vehicles. They have no resources to discharge their constitutional duties. Up to now, they have no residences. If this Government is committed to devolution, we want to see action and not lip service. Hon. Deputy Speaker, there are attempts to micro-manage the governors when they have been given these powers by the Constitution; the same one which gave the President the powers"
}