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    "speaker_name": "Voi, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jones Mlolwa",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to the President’s Address. At the outset, I support it and I want to make a few remarks. One of them is about the state of the economy of the country. All of us are aware that the economy is not doing well. It is not true because people do not have money in their pockets. Secondly, many businesses are closing down because money is not in circulation. The point that our economy is doing well is not true. We need to work harder to ensure those things which are stopping us from growing our economy like corruption are stopped. Corruption should be fought using the right agencies and not through rallies and churches. We must ensure that we empower our agencies to fight corruption properly. One of the issues in the Big Four Agenda is food security. We may not attain food security if we continue depending on rain-fed agriculture. We need to go down and do irrigation in most areas. In my constituency, Voi, which is in Taita Taveta County, we need to harness all the water which goes all the way into the ocean to be used for irrigation by the people in order for us to attain food security. On health, you will realise that many hospitals in this country do not even have drugs and enough staff. It is something which must be addressed unless we want to go back to the early 90s or 80s where diseases as simple as malaria could not be treated. So, we need to put a lot of emphasis on our health systems like what happened to the containers which were imported to be used as dispensaries. They are still lying in Mombasa unused and yet taxpayers’ money was spent. We need to know what is happening to those containers. The other issue is on industries. The industries in this country are built in only a few areas. We need to have industries even in rural areas. Where the SGR has passed, we need things like inland container depots. In Voi, which also connects Tanzania, we need the inland container depot as at yesterday so that all the traffic to northern Tanzania can pass through the Taveta line which should be constructed. Last but not least, on education, our education system is getting messed up. Those people concerned with education like the Ministry, KNUT and other unions are not agreeing with what is going on right now in our country. We need to agree and have all-inclusive meetings to ensure 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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