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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol",
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        "legal_name": "Dennitah Ghati",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute on this important matter of the President’s Address. I would like, at the outset, to say that the Address by the President set one key parameter. As the CEO of Kenya, he pronounced that he has heard the cry of the Kenyan people. Indeed, we can see that we have challenges in our country that range from negative ethnicity which is really tribalism that seeks to support anyone only on the ground that they are from your tribe… We see challenges of unemployment particularly among the youth leading them to very undesirable behaviour like drug abuse, adolescent pregnancies and even child marriages. We also see corruption become something that is not only talked about at length, but also seems to be defined as a culture or practice. This is because in terms of values, practices and what is admired and seen to be the way to go would be perhaps to celebrate those who have found ways of sanitising corruption. We have social breakdown of the family. Indeed, when we look around we do not understand the sense of hopelessness and the desperation that has led to situations where spouses turn on each other, where parents turn on their children and the society turns on the elderly. So, as I support the President’s Address, I would like to emphasise that it indicates what, indeed, is required when a country looks at such challenges. We see the President acknowledging that the task before us is enormous. I agree with the President. I particularly would like to note that it is good that the President has indicated to us the areas where we collectively need to work so that we do not turn back. I want, in the time that is available, not to elaborate too much but to indicate that when we talk about the BBI… I have listened with a lot of interest as colleagues spoke not only about the handshake but also on the attendant interpretation, which is their right. I wanted to humbly request that given the challenges that range from lack of inclusivity to unemployment to electoral injustice… It is only yesterday, as we were debating the Auditor-General’s report on the IEBC, we could see challenges and historical injustice. We also have had talk related to land and insecurity. I want to thank the President because among the issues that he says he is not turning back on is devolution and ensuring that we have some development based on the Big Four Agenda. This is by ensuring that we have economic development and most importantly the BBI. I hope we can all understand that our country, Kenya, after the 2017 elections and the manner in which we were in a state of indecision, required among other things a foundation stone to be laid. We can lay the 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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