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    "id": 896671,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving an opportunity because I have really waited to rise and support the President’s Address. He addressed both Houses - the National Assembly and the Senate. I support it 100 per cent. This is because it was quite balanced and it gave us a lot of hope. It built a lot of confidence amongst us, as leaders. I believe it also gave hope to Kenyans. The President dwelt so much on corruption. This is something all of us who have been debating this Speech today, have contributed towards. We know very well that corruption is a limiting factor towards positive development, and more particularly, development that is politically driven. Corruption is a delimiting factor when it comes to issues that require political deliberations, political legislation and very many processes which catalyse development. Personally, as a leader from Kiambu County, I am quite concerned because corruption is not only the economic corruption we are reading in the newspapers and listening to in radios, but it is that which affects the common mwananchi, voter and citizen who queues for hours in the national and county land offices trying to pursue issues of title deeds. As I speak about title deeds, I particularly talk about Kiambu County because we seem to have a problem. I do not know whether this is a problem which I am the only one who is familiar with, but I must say, as a leader, that Kiambu County is the dormitory of Nairobi. We have so many people who work in Nairobi, but reside in Kiambu in the so-called rental houses. I had an issue because most of these houses are owned by single women or widows. These women queue in large numbers in our land registry offices to follow up on their title deeds. It is never clear 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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