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    "id": 797257,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waweru",
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        "legal_name": "Dennis Kariuki Waweru",
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    "content": "However, His Excellency the President quickly noted that despite the electioneering process and the drought situation in Kenya, the economy of this country stayed resilient. For that, we have to applaud ourselves as Kenyans; that we were not derailed by this long electioneering process. Neither were we very hard hit by the calamities that were natural and as such we carried the normal Kenyan spirit of resilience. I have to say that my big takeout out of what His Excellency the President spoke about in his State of the Nation Address was that we are now living in a new era. Our very able and senior Member of Parliament, Hon. Angwenyi, will tell us that Kenya has gone through different epochs. We have had a post independent epoch, a post multiparty epoch, a post constitutional epoch and I stand here and declare that we are now living in the post handshake epoch. In this era, I applaud the President for coming up and inspiring us as a nation that we are actually going to emerge from the calamities that have befallen us in the past. I am more persuaded now that we as a country will emerge and we will be able to deliver on the Big Four Agenda. We shall emerge and deliver on health, food, housing and industry. I am more persuaded, after listening to His Excellency the President yesterday. He noted that the things that the normal Kenyan wants delivered are good health, jobs for the young people, food security and affordable housing. I am persuaded that Kenya will emerge and deliver on this one. I am persuaded that we shall emerge and shall be able to build a more robust infrastructure and framework for devolution in this county. I do believe, now more than ever, even after listening to His Excellency the President yesterday, that we shall emerge as a country and be able to face head on this dragon of corruption and fraud and possibly slay it in our generation. I am more persuaded that right now we shall emerge as a country and be able to do a radical renewal of our infrastructure and our interconnectivity in this country and as such build our economy to be the economy we would want it to be, a continental leader. My few minutes are up. I will say that Kenya is ready to emerge as a greater, more cohesive and progressive nation and for that I do thank His Excellency the President for inspiring our nation that we shall emerge. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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