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    "speaker_name": "Isiolo North, KPP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Hassan Hulufo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to comment on the State of the Nation Address by His Excellency the President. I must say that it is fairly an imbalanced Speech. I say fairly imbalanced because there are a number of issues which I expected to feature in the Speech which probably I will mention later. Generally, as required of him by the Constitution, His Excellency the President updated us on what has happened over the last one year in terms of achievement of values which are highlighted under Article 10 of our Constitution. The President touched on security. Of course, the security situation in the country is fairly good, but we had an unfortunate event where expatriate doctors were kidnapped and up to now, we are yet to secure them from the hands of the Al Shabaab . As a result of that incident, Cuban doctors who were offering good services in a county like Isiolo have been withdrawn. Therefore, I would like to urge the national Government to beef up security and ensure that Kenyans and foreigners who are either visiting our country as tourists or are serving our people in different capacities are secure in this Republic. On the BBI, we all support it. It has helped us bring down political temperatures. On the other hand, we have seen that because of perception, the handshake goals go beyond lowering political temperatures and probably have implications on the political alignment with regard to 2012. We have seen some cracks on both sides of the political divide. Therefore, I would like to urge the two principals, His Excellency the President and the former Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, to try and see how best the handshake can be extended widely and how it can permeate all the affiliates so that the intended purpose is achieved. I was particularly happy about recognition of people who help us to fly our flags high; sportsmen and women and also the teacher who scooped the best teacher award in the world as well as a Kenyan who happened to be recognised worldwide for innovation. When we have our President recognising these heroes and heroines, it is a good thing and it will encourage other Kenyans to emulate them. Of course, on matters devolution, we fully support the commitment of His Excellency’s Government. He indicated that so far, Kshs1.7 trillion has been transferred to various county governments since the first term of 2013-2017. I can confirm that as a representative from a an ASAL constituency, what we have achieved from the time devolution came into force cannot be compared to what our areas received in terms of development funding or transformation in the first 50 years of Independence. 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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