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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s State of the Nation Address. At the outset, I was pleased with the Address. The message that he sent across the country is that now we have reconciled and it is back to business, planning and doing what we were elected to do as Members of this House. I applaud the unity that he exhibited yesterday by briefing the House on how he met the Right Hon. Raila Odinga, who played a big role in the democratisation process of this country. This is a lesson to all of us that in as much as we are campaigning and doing all sort of things as we seek for votes from the divides that we stand for, we should be careful about tomorrow because those battles do not last. At times the damage is irreparable because during electioneering period, there are so many people who lost their property and lives. Going forward as a country, we should engage in campaign and talk that brings the country together. Cohesive politics is going to keep us together. Talking about development and the achievement of the Government, I applaud the Jubilee administration for what they have done in the past one year, despite the fact that there was a lot of politics. We achieved significant growth in terms of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP). That tells us that going forward, if we can do this with the kind of hot politics that we have and if we pull together, we can do a two digit growth of our economy and that is possible. Therefore, I support the Address and urge my colleagues on the need to pull together to achieve the Big Four Agenda plan that the President has. That is what we are going to be counted for. Not the many insults that we throw at each other, the hatred or the sideshows. It how well we are going to address the issue of health, manufacturing, affordable housing and food security. I come from a constituency whose economic activity is farming. We have much food that goes to waste because of poor roads and I thank the Members who have contributed on the Equalisation Fund. As much as we are not beneficiaries, there are so many areas that are marginalised and their produce goes to waste because there are no roads and the infrastructure is not well done. Coming from a constituency such as Kinangop where a lot of food goes to waste while counties such as Turkana go without food, that is a paradox that needs to be addressed. If we do not do that, we are going to be a wasteful nation with limited resources. We will be wasteful in some parts of the country. Therefore, I support the President’s remarks that we have a responsibility as a House to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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