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    "id": 386457,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Ongoro",
    "speaker_title": "The Nominated Senator",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Elizabeth Ongoro Masha",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to give my comments on the Presidential Speech which was delivered to us on 16th April, 2013. As has been said before, President’s from developing countries give a lot of promises, but actually implement only one per cent, or nothing at all. I stand here to give our new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) the benefit of the doubt and to state that his Speech was full of content both positive and negative, but I want to be optimistic because Rome was not built in a day. Since he has not had time to implement, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. In his opening remarks, he pledged to work with both sides of the political divide. This is the test he is going to pass or fail by the time he is through with naming his first Cabinet in a few hours, days or weeks. He has already named four of them and we are yet to see more. If he really means that he is going to work from both sides of the political divide, we want to see him having the substance to appoint certain personalities who do not pledge loyalty to him, but who he believes have got what it takes to run those Ministries. He also accepted, and this I take with a lot of excitement, the under- performance of key Ministries like agriculture, manufacturing and transport. But in my opinion, I believe there are others like health and education. It takes somebody to accept that they are ill for them to start the healing process. For the CEO of this nation to accept that we are under-performing, it gives me the hope that he realizes that we need to change our governance structures and that he will do something about it. This is really going to be a logistics hub for the transport sector. I would have liked to see him encourage all key sectors to establish this kind of a hub, so that we have a hub for logistics in the health sector, agriculture, education and all that. We want to have a point of reference for most of the key pillars of economic development. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, he also promised to restructure the disbursement of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund (YEDF) and the Women Enterprise Development Fund (WEDF) in the format of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). That was encouraging. It is actually devolving that to the grassroots. He also promised to respect the Constitution. I want to state that the nation was waiting to hear what he had to say to this, knowing fully that he led the brigade that actually opposed the new Constitution that was promulgated. We, as a nation, wanted to know what he was going to state about this. There has been fear among a majority of Kenyans that he does not have what it takes or the goodwill to implement the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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