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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Maj-Gen. Nkaisserry",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Defence",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kasaine Ole Nkaissery",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this very important Motion. In the President’s Speech, he laid down quite a number of policy issues which are very important for this country. He dwelt very much on the electoral process and reform process. To me, that is very important. He also brought out some very important challenges facing this country. In his Speech, he highlighted the issue of high inflation rate, high cost of fuel, depreciation of the Kenya shilling, prolonged drought, food shortages, less pastures, especially in the north eastern part of the country, loss of livestock due to drought and persistent drought. So, those are the challenges that he mentioned in his Speech. What was lacking – I speak here as the Member for Kajiado Central because my people are affected - were the mitigation aspects to address the challenges. I would have expected the technocrats who wrote the President’s Speech to dwell on the solutions of these problems. If we have shortage of food, how can we provide adequate food? We have heard farmers in the North Rift complaining that they have plenty of food in their stores, but that the Government has failed to purchase the food at the right price. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the economy has grown to 2.5 trillion shillings, then why are the people of Turkana suffering due to lack of adequate food? Why has the Government not restocked their lost animals? Why has the Government not bailed out livestock farmers by paying for them outstanding Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) loans? Why has the Government failed to restock the lost animals for the pastoralists? If indeed the economy has improved by that much, why is the Government not doing this, so that we spread out the economic gains through the country?"
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