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    "id": 896835,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nairobi CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "When they go to schools and universities, they get the best education that is of international standards. Their food is also affordable. Look at what has happened in Sudan. The movement and rebellion really started as a result of the Government removing subsidies on bread and wheat. The people said: “No!” Here in Kenya, there is a cry about unga . We should, as a Government, not ignore the fact that issues about food are emotive. Even as we look at housing and food security, we need to ensure that food is affordable. It is not enough to threaten the millers. What we have to do, as a Government, is to ensure that we have a lot of produce. We must ensure that agriculture is affordable. We have talked about irrigation many times. The President commended us for passing the Irrigation Bill. He left out the Children Bill and the Gender Bill in his Speech. I feel that he has somehow connected with what Parliament is doing but, at the same time, there is a disconnect with certain issues that are emotive. At the moment, our country is faced with big numbers of cancer patients. We have been crying and asking for cancer to be declared a national disaster. That has not been done. We have a lot of femicide cases. Almost every week, women are being raped and butchered. We also have men being sodomised and butchered and yet, we are not addressing sexual and gender-based violence as a national disaster. How many people will die before we look into that? All in all, the President made a good Address. I ask the people who sit around the President and advise him to bring him closer to the grassroots. It is not the technocrats that have information; it is the grassroots. So, if he connects with the grassroots and gets to understand the level of poverty and then make his agenda around poverty alleviation, I believe the President will be in a position to make an address that will be accepted by the citizenry at large. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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