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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ghati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": "The people of Migori need services. If my Governor is found to have misappropriated those funds--- My people are not rich. Action should be taken against all corrupt leaders. The President gave an apology to this country about past injustices. It is good. However, just giving promises without action is null and void. We know, as a country and as a people, that the President owns a lot of land in this country. He has parcels of land in Mombasa and almost everywhere. Things like the post-election violence and land-grabbing are injustices that were meted to Kenyans. As an action point, I would have expected the President to say that he owns land in Mombasa and he is ready to give some of it to the landless and IDPs in Mombasa. That is the action that I expected the President to take. On the issue of inclusivity, which the President clearly talked about, he said that he wants to promote social justice and inclusivity in his regime. We have seen reports in this country where appointments to parastatals, cabinet secretaries and principal secretaries go to just two or three communities. We are a country of 42 tribes. I expected the President to say: “From this point henceforth, I am going to make deliberate discrimination to ensure that communities that are historically disadvantaged get appointments.” Opportunities are opening up in parastatals. That is what the President should say. We need action and not just speeches. However, the cash transfer issue that the President talked about touches on me. I come from a county where the money from the cash transfer program for older persons, persons living with disabilities and vulnerable children is not trickling down to the people. I do not know where that money goes to. He talked about 500,000 households that are benefiting from the cash transfer program. In my county, the people with disabilities or older persons are not benefiting. When they benefit, it is not regular. That money is not coming every month or two months as it is supposed to. As much as it is a laudable effort by the President to say that the cash transfer program is reaching 500,00 households, the older persons need to get that money. Lastly, we have seen escalating incidences of sexual and gender-based violence in this country. We have seen our children being defiled. Even in this House, our integrity is being put to test on rape allegations."
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