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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Barchilei",
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        "legal_name": "Edwin Kipruto Barchilei",
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    "content": "Thank you for this chance, hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to impeccably support the President‟s State of the Nation Address. In supporting it, I will want to disapprove some of my colleagues who I have said that this is a mere public relations exercise. Progress in the energy sector is a fact and development. It is not a public relations exercise because we have seen the President indicating that we have an additional 514.9 megawatts of power. I want to say that the President has shown his competence in governing this country by measuring on very important things that contribute to its economy. In the President‟s State of the Nation Address, we saw that the President is so much concerned with infrastructure which is actually the essence of our economy. In his Government we have seen the annuity programme which we never witnessed in any other Government. On the development of infrastructure, I have even witnessed it in my constituency recently. There is construction of a road from Eldoret, Ziwa, Segero to Kachibora. This road was pathetic. I want to thank the President for that. The President took a bold move by directing those who are in that list of those alleged to be corrupt to step aside. Corruption is a deadly thing to the Kenyan economy. Every gratification of corruption benumbs the faculties and deadens the economic perception thus crippling the economy of this country. I support the step by the President to call on those involved or being alleged to be corrupt to step aside. There are some other issues which I saw as of great concern and that the President needs to emphasise. One is the issue of the youth. Most of young people like me are jobless yet they make 70 per cent of the Kenyan population. The Government should initiate several programmes to ensure that the youth get employment and are busy so that we have a conducive environment in this country. There is another serious thing concerning farmers. As a Member of Parliament for Soy Constituency where we depend on maize because we do not have gold or any other minerals, I want to say that the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has not paid farmers since December and others since January. It is the planting season and I want the Government to see that. People have not been paid and it is the planting season. I urge the Government to act on the issues of farmers, especially maize farmers. The President also touched on building more hospitals. We know that the health sector is a devolved function. However, he is so concerned in his Government that he has factored in the construction of more hospitals. County governments have failed in so many things yet they have billions of shillings. The devolved sectors are actually in jeopardy. I want to thank the President for coming in and helping because the county governments do not have the capacity to provide health facilities. As I finalise, I would like to thank all the hon. Members for supporting the Presidential Address."
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