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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, with regard to the health sector, when hon. Uhuru Kenyatta became the President, he said he will introduce free maternal health care and he walked the talk. Today, 67 per cent of the Kenyan women are delivering in our hospitals. That is from the 44 per cent when he was taking over. Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), under AMISOM are in Somalia. We are not there for a birthday party; we are there to make sure that we deal with the infrastructure of terror. We must make northern Kenya safe; we must make Nairobi safe and Kenya in general safe. It is an international obligation that, as a country, we host huge numbers of refugees. I want to urge my colleagues in the Defence and Foreign Relations Department that, in as much as we might agree, closing refugee camps is not a one day affair. Kenya is respected internationally. It has signed international treaties. You cannot do that. It is the obligation of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UHNCR) and the Kenya Government to remove the bad elements from the many innocent refugees. You cannot victimize refugees just because there are few elements. It is our obligation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with regard to food security and irrigation, today, 1,000,000 acres in Galana are under irrigation. The idea was conceived by the grand coalition Government then, which I had the pleasure to serve before I was kicked out for reasons known to those who gave me the job and those who sacked me. Hon. Deputy Speaker, with regard to the land reform sector--- One day, I will join Mr. Miguna Miguna and write a book. That, maybe, will give the history of why I joined the grand coalition Government and why I was sacked. On land reforms, it is the biggest issue in Kenya. The reason why people from Coast were agitated was because of land issue. For the first year, over 660 title deeds were issued to the region that had burning questions with regard to land reforms. In conclusion, every governor will do an address of the state of his county. Every political party must have its own state of the nation address. I want to ask political parties to set a day when they will tell the country the state of their political parties in conformity with the Constitution and in conformity with the Political Parties Act and the Elections Act. Each political party must follow the President. We must start with ODM. When I saw hon. Anyang’-Nyong’o criticizing the President’s Speech on the State of the Nation Address - He is a good friend of mine and I am sure he is watching me - I called him and told him: “Before you do that, first give us the state of the ODM nation.”"
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