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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lomwa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Samal Lomwa",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to add my voice on the President’s Address. Looking at national security, I agree with the President that a lot has been achieved. The North Rift peace initiative was a noble idea and a good gesture to the pastoralist communities though more effort needs to be put in supporting the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to foster unity in the diversity of Kenyans and across the ethnic divide. That Commission has done a lot and we need to invest in a lot of resources that will help to calm this country as it has done. On education, I want to talk about electrification of 22,000 primary schools as mentioned by the President. Electricity connectivity is well done but we need to fast-track where minor considerations have to be put, for instance, where contractors did shoddy work. We need to focus on those contractors and blacklist some of them. We should look at those areas for us to realise the good and noble initiative in this sector put in by the Government. I want to commend the President and his Government for establishing technical institutions. It is an idea that is moving toward realisation of the needs of those who cannot access certain levels of education. Our children will acquire necessary skills that will reduce unemployment that is rampant in this country among the youth. I urge the Government to go on with the good work because this is something that will absorb youth in the public sector. This initiative will put food on the table of quite a number of households, in the sense that we are 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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