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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anami",
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        "legal_name": "Lisamula Silverse Anami",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to comment on the President’s Address on the state of the nation. We know who the President is and you could see in his body language that he has good intentions. He seems to mean well. However, when you listen to what he conveyed through the State of the Nation Address, you worry for the President. There are people who are cheating him about the state of the nation. Our Constitution has set a very viable and clear roadmap for consolidation of Kenya as a nation, and it spells out very clearly what we all need to do to consolidate our country. Our country is the best country we can talk about because we do not have another one. Our country enjoys diversity and, therefore, I would expect the President, in his first paragraph or opening remarks, to appreciate that we are a country that is founded on a multicultural platform. With that diversity, we need not just appreciate, but celebrate. I did not see any of this expressed in his Speech. So, is the President properly connected? I think he is not. His connection is skewed to one small corner of the country and he sees what is happening in Kiambu and thinks it is happening in the entire country. That is not the truth. The person who is most disadvantaged by the President’s Speech on the state of the nation is the President himself, because he does not have the truth. I think Departmental Committees need to analyse this Speech. We also need to summon Cabinet Secretaries (CSs) here and other people responsible for the different assignments and areas where the President was talking about. When the President talks about roads and I come from Shinyalu, I get perturbed because the road from Kakamega to Webuye, which was started by Retired President Kibaki, has never been completed. It has not been done even halfway. Ten years down the line, this road has never been done. What are the citizens of Kenya from that area saying about the President’s Speech? The President is being cheated by his lieutenants. Poverty is a serious concern in this country and our Constitution is focussed on dealing with that matter. The President’s Speech should have elaborated and demonstrated the intervention of the Government on how it will deal with sections of this country that are suffering high poverty index. Shinyalu is one of them, where our poverty index is 67 per cent. We are struggling. The President needs to say what he is doing about that. The stories about empowerment, free primary education, youth empowerment, vulnerable groups and stipend to elderly people are just stories. The president did not talk about free primary education. Whom does he want to talk about free primary education? The President needs to be advised that free primary education is very important. It is going to create an enlightened society and, therefore, he needs to have very clear statements to make about this and interventions and roadmaps that he will use to make us realise that. I do not have time. I wish you could give me just one minute to raise this other small concern. The small concern is about the environment."
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