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    "id": 429503,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The President was supposed to address us on three things. The first one is national security and national unity. The President ought to have accepted on the Floor of this House that he has failed to maintain the security of Kenyans. He ought to have agreed that at this moment he cannot guarantee any Kenyan going to worship that he or she will worship peacefully, get out of his or her church and go back to his or her home. He cannot also guarantee that people can go and shop from the malls and go back to their homes safely. With that, the President ought to have agreed and conceded in this House that he has failed to secure Kenyans, which is his cardinal responsibility. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on national unity, the President ought to have exposed how he has worked to integrate all communities of Kenya. Over the one year period that the President has been in power, we have seen certain communities being targeted and their people removed from the public service. This is not in tandem with the requirements under Article 10 of the Constitution. As we speak now, there are Kenyans on Migingo Island who are being harassed by forces from Uganda. This cannot happen and yet the President comes here and says that the state of our national security is steady. The other thing the President ought to have addressed us on is in the international obligations. What is the state of our treaties; what is the state of our loans that we are repaying and any agreements? He also ought to have told us how we are complying with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Apart from the international obligations, the President ought to have told us the state of implementation of our national budget for the 2013/2014 Financial Year. He only came with promises. He promised 10,000 kilometres of new bitumen standard roads and 5,000 megawatts of electricity. The President has continued to launch and re-launch projects. The Uwezo Fund was launched in Murang’a and Garissa but there is no implementation. Up to now, we have not seen the state of implementation of the Budget. We do not know how the funds we voted for the Executive have been utilized. I think the President ought to be communicated to properly that the next State of the Nation Address must address our concerns as Kenyans. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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