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    "id": 797588,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Njoroge",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Wamaua Waithira Njoroge",
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    "content": "Thank you so much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to support and commend yesterday’s State of the Nation Address by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya. The State of the Nation Address was really timely. It contained very many pleas along national healing and cohesion. As much as we appreciate the President’s humility in requesting for forgiveness, it behooves us to emulate the same spirit so that we create peace and unity for this country. As many of my colleagues have alluded, all of us may have erred in one way or another. That is why the famous “handshake” is important. All of us were yesterday asked by the President to shake hands. Let me also say that we really have the need to team up to support the Big Four Agenda of the Government: Food, Security, Universal Health Care, Housing and Manufacturing. These are very paramount, especially food security, universal healthcare and manufacturing. The moment we support them, they will create a lot of job opportunities which the Government is promising our youth who are out there jobless. Hopelessness has caught up with them. That is why most of our youth drink illicit brews. The more we appreciate manufacturing, the better. We have so many areas where we can have factories. We will have many of them. Let me also talk about the issue of corruption. Our President really came out in the open to tell everyone of us leaders and even the citizens that we really need to fight corruption. Corruption cannot only be fought by the leaders and by our President. It is all of us to join hands and see to it that we have fought it. It is not only the work of the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to oversee the Government nationally and also in the counties. We are seeing corruption deals taking place everywhere. A lot of the money meant to offer development to our people so that they enjoy is lost. Therefore, it is our time to embrace the fight against corruption so that we support the Government. I also call upon our colleagues in the Senate to do the same. A lot has happened in terms of corruption, especially in the counties. I am not saying it is not happening at the national level. We really want Senators to support us in fighting corruption in the counties as this House fights it at the national level. We want our citizens to get value for their money. As we look at the various Reports, especially those of the PIC and the PAC, we find this to be a monster. If we are not joining hands, we may not be able to deliver a lot of the promises we told our people. As much as we support and embrace what was contained in our President’s Speech yesterday, I am urging all of us to try to walk the talk so that when all of us get to our constituencies and counties by the end of this term, our people will see the much we would have done. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the chance. I support yesterday’s State of the Nation Address."
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