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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kibiru",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Reubenson Kibiru",
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    "content": "infrastructure so that counties can engage the young people so that they can manufacture. We need to encourage cottage industries. That is the only way we will start developing. For example, India is very good in cottage industries; China is coming up, it also has very good cottage industries. Germany is doing very well. As we plan and move forward, the national Government must help the counties avoid copying and pasting what the other counties are doing. There should be comparative advantage in our counties. If copying and pasting continues, we will have the problem of oversupply which will create another challenge. This is basic economics. Housing is the other agenda and it is a good idea. However, I am not sure if public participation was done in Kirinyaga or in other counties to find out if people needed houses, infrastructure, cheaper roads or finances to construct their own homes. The Government needs to relook at that issue. People have to participate and say what they want. I was in Samburu and my question is: Is housing their priority? My answer to that is ―no‖. We do not need to have a generic issue. We need to domesticate or adapt to different environments when talking about the Big Four Agenda. I have been asking the economists about what is happening because the macro is said to be growing yet the micro is not growing. People are suffering due to lack of money. Those in business want to know what is happening. There is no money in circulation. Businesses are not generating money and that becomes a challenge. We need to find out how the growth can trickle down to the common man. I support the President 100 per cent because he said that there is no turning back on corruption. However, he needed to have given an amnesty. People have been corrupt for so long in this country. We have grown hearing about corruption. We can give an amnesty to corrupt people by asking them to return what they have stolen in three months. If that does not work, I will support the direction and the decision of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). As we deal with issues of corruption, we need to strengthen our issues of governance especially the institutions that deal with some of these issues. All the corruption that we are talking about starts with procurement. We need to retrace our procurement systems because we have procurement fraud in the counties and everywhere else. The Government is not talking about its pending bills. The Government has the highest number of pending bills yet we just talk of the counties‘ pending bills. We need to tell the national Government to stop using suppliers‘ credit. Why would you want to stay with somebody‘s money for two years? That person could have borrowed the money from the bank. If we do that and look at things in a holistic way, if the Government opens its offices, books and everything, we will move forward. I wish the Government and the President all the best. There is room for improvement and I do hope that he will hit 60 per cent in his address next year. With those few remarks, I do support the speech."
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