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    "id": 896623,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lari, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jonah Mwangi",
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        "legal_name": "Jonah Mburu Mwangi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I support the President’s Address. The President sometimes is a genius. He touched on all the areas that Article 132 is supposed to address, namely the issue of national cohesion, international relations and security. When we start with international relations, the President lured President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to Mombasa. That guy was opposing the SGR to go all the way to Uganda. He was lured and was given some land in Mai Mahiu. Now, we will have a Ugandan port, but the biggest question that I wish to ask the President - and I know he will come up with another stroke of genius - is: Who will be employed within that port? Do we again import Ugandans to be employed at that port? I bet we will have many Kenyans getting employed in that Ugandan dry port so that our young boys and girls can get employment. Again, when I look at the SGR, which is a transformation issue in this country, it is catering for the rich who are importing from China or Dubai and the rich man who is importing from Uganda and then exporting. I will ask the Government, now that the President is in China with Baba, to get an extra, maybe, Kshs100 billion or Kshs200 billion, so that we can do more roads connecting to the SGR. We have very many avocados in Lari. How will they come from Githunguri all the way to Mai Mahiu where we will have a station if we do not have a road connecting Mai Mahiu, Githunguri and Kiambu? How will all the bananas come from Embu? How will they come from Meru without a good road network to bring the goods to the SGR? In addition to the SGR, which is transformational, we should have a road network that is connecting mwananchi in the village. The road network should enable people to deliver their agricultural goods from the villages all the way to the big wagons of the SGR. We can put cattle in our trucks and bring them to the wagons of the SGR. That is transformation by the President. Another stroke of genius from our President is this thing of the handshake. The handshake has brought a lot of peace in our country. I am sure the President will pull it again because it seems everybody has turned it to be tribal. Maybe my president in Luhyaland was not given a handshake, my president in Kalenjinland was not given a handshake or my president in Ukambani was not given a handshake. May be another stroke of genius is coming where all those kingpins will get a handshake so that we can all be singing the same song, but it was a good thing. The country is moving forward. What we need to eliminate from that war of handshake is trying to put illusions of the 2022 elections. 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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