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    "id": 896252,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Turkana West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Daniel Nanok",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Epuyo Nanok",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution. I want to add my voice to the Presidential address. Generally, the Address by the President in this august House was hope-inspiring. It is important for this country to keep its hope alive. The challenges that this country is facing at this time are increasing; they are becoming enormous. Therefore, the leadership of the country needs to speak and read from the same script. That is what, generally, the Presidential Address meant to do. However, there is need for us to move from words to action in this country. We can all see that there is action, particularly in dealing with corruption. There are serious activities going on by the institutions that are charged by the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya to handle issues of corruption. That fight needs to be supported by the leadership. As the President said, it will be dealt with as per the law. We will not allow vigilante justice to be ingrained in our Republic. That is the way to go. That is a call that needs to be supported. The leadership of this country; that is the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary, for sure, will do this country justice if they can tone down the rhetoric that is deviating and diverting the attention of Kenyans from the real issues. As we speak, the rains have come. Whereas we were suffering during the drought period, we will suffer again because of the rains. It is because of our way of doing things and preparing for some of those events. Floods will wash away people and properties in this country. The drought we experienced decimated our livestock and worsened our food situation. So, the leadership needs to put their minds to activities that will change the way we do things in this country. This is part of what the President’s Speech was meant to address. I come from Turkana County. In my constituency, there is the famous Lotikipi Aquifer, which was said to have a water resource that can run this country for 70 years. The whole country could utilise Lotikipi water alone without touching any other water body and run for 70 years. Unfortunately, that water has not been exploited. No single borehole has been sunk and is in use in that region. That is what I am talking about. We must turn our words into actions. Food security was one of the issues that the Presidential Speech addressed. Lotikipi should form part of the agenda of the food security of this country. There are many other issues that the Presidential Speech touched on that need action. We are planning, but we are not implementing. We are executing budgets and yet, the budgets are not changing the face of this Republic with all the challenges. If we are not careful, come 2022, the Big Four agenda…"
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