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    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Narok West",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I want to begin by first of all congratulating you for having been elected Deputy Speaker of this House. Like other colleagues who have spoken before me, I voted for you and I also campaigned for you so thank you for the opportunity. I also want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the people of Narok West for giving me this opportunity to serve in this House. I will do the best I can to represent them. I want to begin by appreciating the Speech of His Excellency the President, by commending a few key pillars that he talked about. On corruption, I want to agree with Eng. Gumbo that the problem we have in this country is not the salaries of Members of Parliament but corruption that we have in our country. We must support the President to put in measures that target to close the loopholes that have been eating our purse. I want to say that I totally agree with the President that we must do everything that we can to make sure that we stop corruption in this country, otherwise, the wage bill will continue to raise and there is nothing we can do about it. However, I want to agree with the President that, that is the way to go. The issue that he talked about is tourism. He talked of doubling the level of tourism to three million a year by 2017. The Seventh Wonder of the World is in my constituency and any programme that is going to be put in place will be highly welcomed by the people of Mara. But before they do that, I would like to say to the President that the road to the Seventh Wonder of the World which is the only one we have in Kenya is impassable. There are no roads. I would have loved to see that this Seventh Wonder of the World has a tarmacked road from Narok to Sikinani Gate so that tourists can go there without any problems, otherwise when some of them come back to Nairobi they go straight for a massage. They massage their backs because the roads have made them uncomfortable. On the roads within the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, when we were campaigning we used those roads together with the President and the Deputy President; they know how they are. I want to say that the roads within Maasai Mara Game Reserve are bad. When they were campaigning, they went through those roads and they know what I am saying. Further, I want to say that before you even do marketing, you must address the issue of infrastructure."
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