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    "id": 797250,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mariru",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Kariuki Mariru",
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    "content": "involvement and being part and parcel of Government. This country has to ask itself the fundamental question of how we put the two, both the economy and politics, into tension. That journey of asking that question was started yesterday by His Excellency the President. As you know, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, both the President and the former Prime Minister have nominated a team of persons in our country to deal with this process. I think it is important we give that team full support so that then they help us as a country to have a national dialogue, national engagement and a national process and ask ourselves those very fundamental questions for our country. The President also did mention about what Government has done in the last many years, especially around infrastructure. This country has transformed in every sense, especially around infrastructure and the railway. For the first time in 100 years, we have the Standard Gauge Railway. We have over 3,000 kilometres of road done and the President did indicate yesterday that there are 5,000 more to be done. There is the issue of power. I was reading somewhere that Kenya is now 8th in the world in terms of geothermal power, although we still have to engage about the tariffs and the cost of that power. So, there has been consistent investment in what I would call the bedrock of production. However, we must quickly translate that into what that means to families and young people who want jobs. I guess that is why His Excellency the President’s focus now is around manufacturing. That way, the roads would mean jobs to our people; the railway line would mean livelihood to a person deep into Kenya; and the connection of power would mean security and jobs for our people. Production will go high. So, we must move from the bedrock investment to actually production so that our people produce and mean something. Agriculture, which is one of the four pillars, is one of the areas that I think this country is going to find lots of livelihoods and jobs. We have our young people investing and farming so that they can create jobs. Others are around healthcare, security and the free trade across Africa that was signed in Rwanda a few weeks ago. All these aggregates put Kenya into perspective and into the map in Africa and in the world. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for that opportunity."
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