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    "id": 451488,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Gure",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Shukran Hussein Gure",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s Address. When the President came here, I was expecting that he would tell us what the Government has done in the past one year. What I find in his speech are promises. About the security, we are facing a disaster. We have a big problem in security. However, I have not seen that captured in the President’s Address. All that the President focused on was the issue of ensuring that there is peace at our borders with other countries. In our country, we have burning issues. Members of Parliament get robbed and there are other issues happening in the counties. The President said that the allocation to county governments increased from 15 per cent to 32 per cent. He, however, did not talk about the consequences such as the high wage bill we are faced with currently. There is also the issue of the laptops project which is totally dismantling our budget and economy. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the railway project, there is no procedure that the Government followed. I am sure we will face another problem as a result of that. Former President Kabaki’s Government was so tough on KRA. The oversight was tough, but now we are facing a lot of corruption and that is why the wage bill is going up. I have not seen in the President’s Address where he has said that we should tighten oversight. He has not mentioned anything about oversight, yet he said that people should get car grants, loans and so on. This is even when we still have problems with our wage bill. In the health sector, we are witnessing doctors resigning from their jobs. We have dispensaries with no medicines and staff. I know that health has been devolved, but did the President talk about the logical things that we needed to hear? We did not want to hear false promises. For a whole year we have been talking of promises. This was the right time for him to tell Kenyans what the Government had done for a whole year. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is food insecurity. The VAT---"
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