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    "id": 732461,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kaluma",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1565,
        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "there happen to visit the country even for a week and they fail to return, it is deemed to be desertion. From Central Kenya to Coast, eastern and northern Kenya, we have very many gallant sons of this country currently imprisoned for life by the Court Martial simply because they delayed to return. You do not get any pay yet you are there. How can it be that a President imagines that going there and being seen in military regalia taking a photo is what those great men and women of this country need to run this country? The state of this country is that the war against corruption is lost. Five minutes will not allow us to say much but I am convinced to say without any doubt that it is no longer tenable in this country to persuade anybody that the Presidency is not involved in this corruption. In Luo, we say the fish rots from the head. How can we say that we are fighting corruption and yet Kathleen Kihanya and Ms. Muthama are out there? An amount of Kshs5.2 billion for the Ministry of Health is lost and yet doctors are on strike. The President is telling us that he is getting doctors from Tanzania. Witchdoctors of the type we see on the trees or what doctors can treat Kenyans better than the doctors we have? We spend billions of shillings training medics here and we say we do not have adequate numbers of doctors. It is because we do not sustain them well. It is also because conditions in which they serve are non-existent. So they go to other countries where they offer better services after we have invested in them. That is the situation we are in. The state of the nation is that you cannot tell us you have constructed 7,000 kilometers or 9,000 kilometers of road. The President is today opening footpaths and footbridges in Kisii. You cannot imagine construction of roads. The Coalition Government constructed roads from Nairobi to Thika which we see. This is because roads are things we see. Where are these roads? In which region are they? These are falsehoods. I was taken for a fool the other day by the Cabinet Secretary for Energy. I want to tell this House that the so-called Last Mile Connectivity Project is the current looting hole for this Government. By the time we look at it, you will be shocked. The electrification of primary schools stalled immediately it was launched. This is the case and yet donors put over Kshs37 billion into this scheme and billions of shillings were added by this Government. We were with the Cabinet Secretary here when he said he did not need more money. Which single school has been supplied with electricity in Homa Bay Town Constituency or in Homa Bay County? We are divided as a nation because the President does not think of this country as a country. As I conclude, let us educate the President on the nation called ―Kenya‖. He tends to think it is Central Kenya and parts of Rift Valley. It is not. Kenyans are feeling excluded and I am grateful that this is the last speech we are getting from a so detached personality."
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