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    "id": 534973,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my comments. First of all, I would like to thank the President for the Speech that he very well articulated, which was written in very good English – English of the Britons. However, I do not think that the Speech was meant for all Kenyans. It belongs to a few Kenyans. It is not a Speech meant for people in western Kenya, Turkana and Baringo counties. The President is the person who is best suited to tackle the problem of corruption once and for all. The issue of corruption touches each and every square inch of this country. It touches each and every one of us. I remember that when President Kibaki came on board, everybody, including me, thought that he would deal with corruption. I used not to pay parking charges. I would wait and give the parking attendants some Kshs20. Immediately President Kibaki took office; we all abandoned such activities and became very keen about eliminating corruption in Kenya. However, when the Anglo-Leasing scandal came to the public domain, it became very clear to Kenyans that nobody was going to deal with corruption. President Uhuru Kenyatta is the son of a former President, which means that he has nothing to lose. He is somebody who has everything you can think of. He is a young person, who does not know anything to do with tribalism. He is the one who should tackle this problem once and for all. Kenyans are waiting. We have waited for so long. The issue of corruption in the Government should not be dealt with at an ambit look. In my view, the President should sack everybody in Government and start afresh. He has the mandate of all Kenyans. We are all waiting for the President to come out very strongly and clearly on how he intends to deal with the issue of corruption. He should not be bringing to Parliament a list of names of only a few individuals whom we know are not the main culprits. The names of the real culprits have been left out of the list. Some of those people should be answerable on the issues of corruption, but the list is not inclusive. This is a very small percentage compared to the numbers that we are looking for. On the issue of food security, Kenya has a big deficit of food security. The Government should tell us clearly how it intends to handle the issue of food security. Irrigation is the way forward. If we are still not talking about irrigation to solve the issue of food insecurity in our country, we are still wasting our time and failing to solve the problem. In Nyando, where I come from, we grapple with floods year in, year out. The rains have now come. I do not know where my people will go. How can the issue of flooding not be solved once and for all in Kisumu County and in many other parts of the country, including the coastal region? Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another issue I would like to address is the equipping of a few hospitals under the county governments and the national Government. In my view, there is no need of spending a lot of money on equipment, when the people who are supposed to operate that equipment have not been trained. In my view, the Government should, first of all, look into the issue of training the manpower that is going to handle the equipment. After that, we can look for the equipment. We do not even have gloves in our hospitals. Why do we want to cut the tree from the top instead of doing so 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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