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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I did not believe I would get the chance. I congratulate His Excellency the President on his State of the Nation Speech on the national covenant. I believe the Jubilee Government has achieved a lot over the past three years. No government can boast of having issued many title deeds as the Jubilee Government. By the end of the term, we will have issued more than 4 million title deeds. Many roads which were left by the nusu mkate Government are now being completed by the Jubilee Government. When they say that roads are not being done, we have to complete the roads which were started. My colleagues have talked about the World Bank supporting many of the programmes. Yes, the World Bank would support if it has got the support of the Jubilee Government. That is how it comes in. I think we should be thankful to the Jubilee Government for constructing all those roads, especially in my constituency where there was a road which has never been done for the last 50 years. It had been started by President Kibaki’s Government but it had stalled and the Jubilee Government took over. We are now expecting that within a couple of months we will have the tarmacked roads in North Imenti as well as the Meru bypass. We should also thank the Jubilee Government because we have electricity installed in most of the primary and secondary schools in the country. Without the promise of the laptop project, we could not have seen electricity going to the remote places. Regarding corruption, I think this is the only President who has ever sacked a third of members of his Cabinet. I do not know any other President having done the same. When the President talks about the fight against corruption he means it, like the other day when he was talking about the Chase Bank and Imperial Bank saga. In the three banks which collapsed the other day, all the people who were involved were men. I would even want the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, if it is possible, to propose that we castrate those who are making people lose their money. This cannot go on. We cannot have banks collapsing and depositors losing their money. I would want the Committee to put that---"
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