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    "id": 896506,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Lilian Gogo",
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        "legal_name": "Lilian Achieng Gogo",
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    "content": "touching on agriculture and the need to enhance food security in this country. It is important that as a nation, the country is well fed. A well fed nation will develop. At the same time, I implore the Hon. President to look at our young people who are out there trained in agriculture, but are not employed. We should put more money in agricultural activities to engage them. We have very many trained extension officers out there who can do extension work. Any agricultural system that is not supported by agricultural extension services is due for extinction. So, it is important that, as a country, we relook at the work of extension officers. This is what did Kenya proud in the 1970s and early 1980s when we were just picking up. It is important we go back to the extension work and probably, when His Excellency comes back to the Floor of the House, he should address that. We should look at agriculture as a way of empowering women and young people for purposes of security. This will be a very good tool to engage our young people and women and make us feed the nation very well. I also want to laud the President on the universal healthcare and the launch and roll-out that was done in a few sub-counties. It is also important that, as much as healthcare is devolved, the nation moves with speed to roll out universal healthcare in the remaining counties so that our people can access it. As long as we are sick as a country; as long as we have people who are reeling with cancer; as long as we have very many cases of arthritis and several lifestyle diseases, we cannot develop. It is important that, as a nation, and in the next President's Address, we are given the state of particular illnesses and what steps the country has taken to mitigate on their progression. I am also talking about the problem that we have with the delivery system for expectant mothers. As much as we are rolling out the universal health care, it is important it is done fast so that we can save the lives of mothers out there struggling to access healthcare even as they deliver the next generation of Kenyans. Allow me to laud the President's Address on national values. As a country, we were at the brink of collapse. As a country, we were seriously and literally divided. But the steps that have been taken by His Excellency Hon. Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta together with Raila Amollo Odinga through the handshake is something we will keep on talking about and leave for future generations to talk about. That is only if we hold it together. I support the President's Address and in the coming times, let leaders hold together. I do not see why we should divide as leaders and make careless speeches when we are out there in funerals or in churches. We use those platforms to divide our country. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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