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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "The issue of access to energy, particularly electricity and diversification of energy in this country, has enabled about 3.7 million homes to be connected to electricity. That is more than double the total number of connections that have been made since Independence. About 14,045 schools have been connected with electricity. About 95 per cent of our schools have been connected to electricity, some through the grid and others through solar connection. That is a good progress that the Jubilee Administration has made in the last four years. In the education sector, the Jubilee Administration has been market and technology- oriented. They said during the campaigns that they were going to be a digital Government. We have seen a lot, like the measures that have been put in place by the Ministry of Education to curb exam cheating. That has really improved our education system. If you look at the technology unit, we have delivered tablets - the so-called computers – to Class I pupils. Most important is the introduction of e-Citizen where 197 public services can now be accessed electronically. It has not been there before. You can now apply for passports, visas, renew licences and, most importantly to politicians, get the certificate of good conduct. It is now a requirement. Business registration and company searches, are among the other services. The 197 public services can now be accessed electronically. Again, very important, is the National Safety Net Programme (NSNP), which nowadays is called the Inua Jamii Initiative. Before the Jubilee Administration took over, only 220,000 elderly people were in that programme. In four years, 500,000 have been added. We now have 720,000 beneficiaries. It is very commendable to remember our senior citizens. I do not want to repeat the issue of the big investment that this Government has put in our health institutions. We had only four referral hospitals but now, we have 92. That is two in every county. It is very commendable. The Mover has talked about 1.2 million mothers who can now access improved healthcare services, or being attended to during delivery by skilled medical personnel. Therefore, in the four years that the Jubilee Administration has been in office, as His Excellency the President enumerated last Wednesday in this House, this country has really been transformed, or has put it on a transformative path. We need to applaud and support it. And they deserve re-election. I am very sure that given another term of five years, it will achieve what we have been talking about - a united, free and industrialized Kenya. You can see what the President said about civil liberties, even as far as fighting terrorism in this country is concerned. Because of open democracy, even those who are taken to court because of terrorism still get bonds. It is not common. Actually, we could be the only country in the world that does that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to second. But five minutes is very little."
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