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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. First and foremost, I register my exception to the fact that the Executive did not keep time on the day they came to address us in National Assembly Chamber. We were held captive for 28 minutes. If you may remember, in early January, Lord Michael Bates almost resigned because of coming four minutes late. The Executive need to take care of the resource called time. It is a resource that needs to be respected. The two Houses are houses of order. The Executive needs to respect time and probably I will be asking the Office of the Speaker to express our reservations. Having said that, on a scale of 1 to 10, I would give the Government about four; that is 40 per cent for some of the issues that the President addressed. To begin with, I request that the advisors of the President and the economists in this country go back to the Sessional Paper that has just been mentioned and try to retrace how the economy and the country ran before the adjustment programme by the World Bank. We had very clear policies. We had issues that used to work then. It was not until the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s that were forced on us by the World Bank that we started bringing some of the issues that we are suffering from to date. During those days, we had everything and everything worked. If we were to go back there, I think we can move the Big Four agenda forward based on some of the basics that were done then. Another issue in the President‘s Speech is the legacy of the Big Four Agenda. From the onset, I am on record in this House and even in Kamukunjis, stating that many of the elected leaders are not aware where the Big Four Agenda starts and end. Being the elected leaders and the first ambassadors of some of these issues, once again, we asked the Cabinet Secretary in charge of coordination of national Government to create time to come and tell us exactly what the Big Four agenda is all about. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, recently, we visited a county that is associated with you. When we looked at the issue of health – yes, fine, we are talking about giving equipment to counties so that they can provide services to our people but you remember The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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