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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Speak for giving me a chance to make my contribution. I rise to support the President for giving such an exemplary Address. I know that the main issues the President came to discuss in Parliament were national values, international obligations and security. At the outset, on national values, I commend the President for talking eloquently about corruption and about bringing our country together in the name of unity. As a Member of Parliament, I support the efforts being put forth by the President in uniting the country, especially doing something that has never been done before in Africa of embracing former competitors and bringing them close for the sake of the country. The only challenge I want to take to the other partners in the handshake is for them to reciprocate the same honesty being exhibited by our President by encouraging every leader out there to embrace each other in the spirit of the handshake. For the country to be united, it will take years for the President and the former Opposition leader Raila Odinga to do so. For the whole country and the fabric to be united well, we need to encourage the handshake to happen below them, especially with the leaders who were former competitors. Therefore, I challenge the ODM party to embrace the handshake by encouraging people like Hon. Aisha Jumwa to embrace other leaders like the Deputy President or the Member of Parliament for Kiharu so that we can take our country forward while we are united. I also want to commend the President for talking very well on the issue of corruption. The elephant in the room that is in the economy of the country is having a short-cut for people to embezzle and steal Government and public resources. Most of us - the sensible Members of Parliament - support the fight against corruption. I have been misquoted out there that I am targeting the instruments that are charged with fighting graft in our country. I want to put it forthrightly that we support the fight against corruption. We support the President's Address that the fight against corruption has to be based on facts. The fight against corruption cannot be fought and won on the basis of innuendo and vigilante justice. Therefore, I challenge my colleague politicians who have been going out there every Sunday and sometimes getting chased from some churches for taking hatred to the pulpit to obey our President and let our Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) and other institutions to fight corruption on the basis of facts and evidence. On security, I commend our Government for doing much to safeguard our country. Like friendship, security’s value is only known when it is lost. When I reminisce, some few years back, we had a lot of security challenges in our country. The investment made by our President especially in his first term is bearing fruits. We see fewer security challenges and we commend the Government for doing that. The major source of insecurity is, of course, poverty. I commend the President for talking a lot of things about our economy, especially about the coffee farmers in Murang’a and about the small business holders that going forward, the Government will be guaranteeing loans and will be acting as security for those people."
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