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"speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
"speaker_title": "The Member for Igembe Central",
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"content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, let me take this opportunity to thank you and the Speaker of our National Assembly for your election and more so to thank my people of Igembe Central for electing me to be their leader. I pray that I will live to their expectations. I want to comment on the Presidential Speech which, personally I feel was quite ambitious. He had a lot of elaborate issues to discuss with us, as nation and it is my prayer that whatever was said that day will be achieved. This will come about if the team he is appointing; if the officers who are being put into various positions will work towards achieving that goal because as I said, it was ambitious. There are so many things which he spelt out and as an individual I do not think he can achieve the same if he is not supported by the galaxy of the team he is going to appoint to work with him. As a Parliament, we should also live to the expectations but also question some of the issues or look at the practicability of some of the issues which were put across. There was the issue of health and especially the maternity issue which has raised quite several eyebrows since he mentioned it during his inauguration. If you read yesterdayâs paper, there are some hospitals experiencing problems because mothers are refusing or are not willing to pay because they say the President said that the money should be paid by the Government. So, I would say that some of these pertinent issues should be brought to the public domain after enough research has been done and after all the issues have been looked into and systems have been put in place to avert some misunderstanding and complications in our hospitals. I have no quarrel with laptops for children. We have no quarrel with going digital but I am asking myself as we say: which came first? Is it the egg or the hen? I am wondering, if we want laptops it is all right, but which is paramount? Is it a classroom, a desk or teachers? I come from Igembe and when you go to some classes, when the teacher is teaching, books are blown off by the wind because the holes on the walls are more than the mud which has put the walls together. So I believe that we should put first things right. We want computers but let us also get the infrastructure for our children so that they can use them. If we had a classroom where computers were put and children would learn and leave them there, well and good. But a computer for a kid to carry home and what they light the house with is a lantern and they cook using firewood, I do not think that computer will last a month because of the environment in which it will be put. Security is paramount in this country and especially in Igembe, where I come from. People engage in cattle rustling every other day. We, Merus, do not steal but we have our brothers here who are very good at using our cows, like somebody has said they have taken Meru to be an âATMâ where they go to get cows. I am requesting them - I remember a foreign President came here and said: âPlease ask the Pokots to stop stealing my cows.â I am requesting my brothers---"
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