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    "content": "In 2013, we promised to provide social protection to our most vulnerable members in the society. Today our National Safety Net Programme, “ Inua Jamii,” covers 720,000 persons up from 220,000 in 2013. The budget for that Programme alone has also been increased by 600 per cent to Kshs18 billion. These are beneficiaries like Mohammed Noor Adow from Bula Rahma Village in Garissa Township. He used to live a destitute life with his wife and seven children. After enrolling in the Inua Jamii in 2015, he received his first payment of Kshs20,000, which he used to purchase goats. Today, with the continued support of the Programme and his livestock trading business, he and his family are able to live a dignified life. Fellow Kenyans, I can go on. These are just some of the promises that we have fulfilled during our term. We acknowledge that the journey of transformation is one that we must walk with our people. I am, therefore, pleased to inform you that in the coming weeks, my administration will launch a public information platform to share, in much more detail, the Government’s delivery agenda during the last four years. Fellow Kenyans, let me now turn to the state of our economy. At the macro level, all indicators are healthy. Our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has expanded at a strong average annual growth rate of 5.9 per cent since 2013. This is against the global average of 3 per cent. Our foreign exchange reserves have increased from 4.3 months of import cover in 2013 to 5.1 months of cover at the start of 2017. Our revenues from tax collections have increased from Kshs847 billion in 2013 to Kshs1.2 trillion at the end of 2016. The stable economic environment over the last four years has seen the cumulative addition of 2.3 million new jobs. From this perspective, the state of our economy is robust."
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