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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Abdirahman",
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        "legal_name": "Abdirahman Ali Hassan",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Because of the time limitations, I will equally take a very short time to see if I can fit all I have in the next five minutes. One, I will join my colleagues, who have hailed the President for the very good Speech. I will equally want to make my comments based on what I feel are the gaps, the first on the economic performance. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is true that that we have heard from the President’s Speech that the economy is growing steadily by 6 per cent. We have also heard that we are now the 9th largest economy in the African Continent. However, I do not know whether it is a deliberate attempt or an omission on the part of those who produced the Speech that there was no single mention on our domestic borrowing. You cannot say we are a healthy nation economically without talking about how much we borrow. We may be mortgaging our future generations and this is something that we really needed to know. As much as we are performing very well as said, there is no trickle-down effect to the local populace. This is another thing we really want to see through the support in power generation. But when you go down to the grassroots level, these things are not really there. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as much as a lot of effort is being made to harmonize the agencies that deal with security in this country, you know what we have gone through as a country; it has been terrible. Yes, there is a little change, but putting up ambitious plans like the Mandera wall that I kept on hearing about may go to waste. We have 800 to 1,000 kilometres of porous border towards Somalia. I do not think investing in such a 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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