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    "content": "the correct position that came from none other than the CEO of this country. This did not happen. The President came to express to us a lot of achievements that the Government has made but there are certain targets that he had set that have not been met. We expected him to come and express to us why what was expected had not been achieved. We do not want to say that the President has ability to do everything. He may have heightened our expectations that the Jubilee Government would do “a”, “b”, “c” and “d” but for those that they have not been able to meet, we expected him to come here and tell us what impediments he was going through and what effort the Government was making to enable him achieve them. President Kibaki came and launched the free education flagship project. In the first financial year, the Free Education Programme was a success. Today, it is a pride of Kibaki’s leadership that he can look back and be proud of. Jubilee’s nemesis could have been the laptop project. As at the time of delivering his Speech, the laptop project had not been implemented. We are being told that it is because of myriad court cases that were there but we are also aware that the SGR was bedevilled with similar court cases but because the President had passion for it, they were all shoved off within no time. The SGR which is his passionate bed project is going on although we know that it was a carryover of the nusu mkate Government. He only perfected it. As much as it is very successful, in reality, it may put us in a serious financial obligation because it is taking a lot of money. Kenyans needed time to probe it and check whether the money we are spending is commensurate with their expectations when we have other challenges. Infrastructure has been articulated as one of those achievements of Jubilee Government. We all know that the Government was hanging on the prospect of something called the annuity programme but it hit the wall. Up to now, I do not know of any road or infrastructural development that has been done by the Jubilee Government because we live in this country. What I know is that when any serious project takes off, the President would want to take credit. The only road that I have seen the President take credit for is the road going to his Deputy President’s Sugoi Mini-State House. That is the only road that has been launched properly. The rest are being planned for but, they have not been done. If they have been done, I would like to know because Road C34 in my constituency is always prioritised as No.4 project in this country. So, if other roads have been done, I would like to know when they were reorganised, why mine was substituted and the one that took priority. We believe certain things have not been done but there is still time. The President does not belong to the Jubilee Government, but this country. With those few remarks, I want to say that the Speech was good but it needed a lot of explanations. We hope that next time we will have a Speech that meets the threshold of the State of the Nation. Thank you very much. I support."
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