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    "id": 352234,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Farah",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Mandera East",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2231,
        "legal_name": "Abdulaziz Ali Farah",
        "slug": "abdulaziz-ali-farah"
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    "content": " Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for seeing me at last. First of all, I want to thank you for being elected as the Speaker of this august House and your Deputy. I also wish to thank the people of Mandera East for electing me to be in this august House. I will comment on the Presidential Speech that was very good and marvelous. It said what we expected of him but to be very specific, when the President talked about a lean Government, I was also touched. He made that promise by reducing his ministries to 18. He also promised to cut on agencies and departments in his Government. I suspect he is on the road to doing that. That was very good of him and I hope he is going to implement it. I will remind the President of the areas that probably he might cut on in his efforts to fight wastage. My first shot goes to the so many commissions that we have in this country. I do not propose eradicating them but let us reduce the number of commissioners who serve in those commissions. By the way, they earn more than hon. Members. I also wish the President would slash the so many departments that exist in some Ministries. Of particular interest to me is the Minister of Water and Irrigation that overlaps severally. The President was very particular about improving the economy of this country. Specifically, he said he wants the economy of this country to grow at a double digit. That was very good of him but I was a little bit confused. I do not know whether it is because I do not know English but when he said he will do that in a generation, I do not know the meaning of a “generation.” Is it 15 years? Is it ten years? I wanted the President to be specific when he said “within a generation”. Is it the five years that he is in office now? I want a clarification on that. But generally, the President touched on so many sectors where he can revamp and improve the economy. He specifically spoke about the tourism sector where he intends to raise the number of tourist arrivals to three million. He also talked about modernizing our agriculture, fighting corruption, creating skilled manpower in this country and so on. He also talked about job creation. But what touched my heart is where he targeted to improve"
}