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    "id": 800887,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ombaki",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Presidential Address that was given here on 2nd May 2018. First and foremost, the President did cover the key areas that his Government was able to achieve during the first term in office, that is, 2013 to 2017, right from infrastructural development to food security and all the other areas including security. The most important area is the implementation of the Constitution that was promulgated in 2010. I think the 11th Parliament and the Executive did commendable work in ensuring that various provisions of the Constitution were actually implemented. Among them was devolution which was a new concept in this country. Up to now, we know that devolution has become a reality in this country. When we started in 2013, the allocation that was made by the national Government to the various units of devolution was Kshs210 billion. We note that this has been progressively increasing such that by last year, we had Kshs327 billion going towards the devolved units. With the kind of programmes and support between the national Government and the county governments, it is our expectation that those particular units will work for the betterment of this country. The President highlighted is Big Four Agenda and one of it is manufacturing which, indeed, is quite key because we know the contribution that manufacturing is making to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). As of now, it is at around 7 per cent. The President has in mind that this has to increase to about 15 per cent. If this has to be done, there should be deliberate policy direction and an enabling environment for investment and also for manufacturing in order for us to achieve that particular target. The President, in his agenda of proper health care, came up with various measures that can only be realised once the county governments also come out strongly in support of this. On food security, unless we are food sufficient in our country, we cannot achieve the kind of development that we want to achieve, particularly in the various sectors when our people are still depending on relief food that is supplied by the Government. So, it is necessary that we come up with tangible measures in agriculture such that our people in various parts of this country can be food secure and self-sufficient as far as food is concerned The President also said that our GDP in 2017 was 4.9 per cent compared with sub- Saharan Africa, which was 2.6 per cent. However, still, that is not good enough because, as we know, if we have to achieve the various goals as envisaged in Vision 2030, then our GDP has to be over 10 per cent. 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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