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    "id": 896371,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bomachoge Borabu, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Zadoc Ogutu",
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        "legal_name": "Zadoc Abel Ogutu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the President’s Address to the Nation. The Speech addressed three fundamental areas that are important to this country. It addresses the basic needs of every Kenyan and the various ways the Government is empowering individuals to prosper and develop their skills. It also addresses the opportunities that individuals are being offered to serve this nation. In these three areas, there are gaps that ought to have been addressed to make the President’s Address different from the previous address that we had last year. One of our major problems is not the budget and the projects that are being allocated money, but the ability for these promises to be delivered. I would have wanted to see a statement that looks at how best we have prepared for the years to come to be able to deliver many of our promises. I have looked at enablers of the Big Four Agenda. The President talked about transport, education and energy. I get the impression that there is no tangible pathway towards ensuring that these enablers will be enhanced, especially in most of the rural areas, so that the Big Four Agenda is achieved. He talked about education. We know how our education has been disrupted by frequent strikes. Even the other sectors like health have been disrupted by strikes. How are we going to address strikes in the years to come to ensure that the Big Four Agenda is delivered? On the issue of disaster management in this country – many speakers have highlighted it – we expected him to mention how the Government has worked to reduce vulnerability of our people to disasters because of starvation, floods or fires that happen in urban areas and in schools. There is no single mention on the strides that have been made towards ensuring that Kenyans do not become victims even as we devolve resources to counties. I wanted to see some achievements and promises towards ensuring that we do not see Kenyans exposed to ugly situations because of some people elsewhere failing to do their duties. The President talked about agriculture as one of the key areas. My colleagues have said that we have many industries that are collapsing each day. We are seeing maize production collapsing because of issues to do with payment of maize over the last one year. We have seen the coffee sector dropping. I come from an area where coffee factories and other coffee facilities 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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