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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Masadia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Agoi Masadia",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. My neighbour is complaining that he has not got a chance, but I am happy. The President‟s Address was marvellous, on target and addressed the issues that Kenyans wanted to hear at the moment. I want to start with corruption because I have little time. The President was right to bring that list in this House so that we know who is giving us problems in handling our economy. We have a lot of issues. Everybody has been complaining that the President is not dealing with corruption, but this time he came out. Let us give him the support he needs so that he can make the second step of asking those in the list to prove they are innocent. Those who are guilty should face the law. If possible, any resources or assets that have been acquired through corrupt means should be recovered and taken back to the State. I also want to commend the President for taking a bold step to equip the police service. They have acquired 2,400 vehicles. That is a big step for the police officers to move and apprehend criminals. However, we want him to make another bold move and ensure our people on the borders and cattle rustling areas are protected. We have a problem in these areas. When those areas are affected, Kenya is affected as a whole. So, we want him to move forward, support the police and equip them a little further. The issues of the Al Shabaab and insecurity in Mombasa are affecting one of the key sectors of the economy; tourism, which is now on its knees. We want to find out ways through which the economy can be revived. The security situation must be fixed. Most of the investments at the Coast cannot be sustained because insecurity has brought them down to their knees. I would also want to talk about the cash transfer programme to the old people. I want to request the President to increase the amount. When we go to the constituencies, all the old people complain they are not getting enough. It is even in the Jubilee manifesto that they must have 100,000 people every year. This year they did not get that target. I would like to encourage them to increase the number to that target. We want to look at other institutions that are on target. One of the institutions that need to be looked at is the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC). In my constituency, they cancelled all the results of Chavakali High School. As we now try to get the students to register afresh, they are on strike because they believe that they did the exams very well, did not steal anything and they deserve to go to universities. We think these KNEC officials are involved in rent-seeking. We have seen from the Report that their head is on the list. So, it is a corrupt institution. We need to make changes in the Act so that they are not the people examining, regulating and setting the exams as well as meting out punishment to students. There is nobody who knows what they are doing and why they are doing it. We want another body which can help us to check and verify whether what they are doing is right or not. On the issue of inequality, the cake the Jubilee Government is putting on the table is not being shared equally. We encourage them to share it equally with everybody. I want to encourage the President to use the opportunity presented by this list of corruption to distribute the jobs that are going to come equally among tribes and regions so that 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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