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"content": "Your time is up Hon. Pauline. Hon. Ruku, what is it? Do you want to contribute?"
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"content": " Yes."
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"content": "Time out. Leader of the Majority Party."
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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me begin by thanking all the Members who have contributed to this debate on the State of the Nation Address by His Excellency the President since yesterday morning when it began, and also even those who were very resilient up to 9.00 p.m. last evening and many others who came very early today morning to contribute. I do not want to say much in response because Members basically have reiterated what His Excellency the President said in his State of the Nation Address. As we said and as many"
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"content": "Members have said in their contributions, the State of the Nation, as the President said, is resilient. And that resilience has been exhibited by the emerging growth of our nation's economy right from a time when one dollar was trading at Ksh162. Yesterday I heard the Deputy Leader of the Minority Party asking whether indeed there is appreciation of the shilling. I know Hon. Robert Mbui is not an economics student and he may not understand most of these things. When the shilling to dollar rate appreciates from Ksh162 to Ksh129, it is something you cannot deny. I also heard him say that at the time this administration took over the reins of leadership, the dollar was trading at Ksh125. That is a fact. But it was, however, trading at that rate in the backdrop of major economic setbacks, with devastating drought. You remember there was no fuel in the country. Kenyans may have forgotten that they had to queue with jerry can to get fuel. When the G-to-G fuel procurement process came into being, this administration was able to stabilise not just the pricing of fuel and that of foreign exchange rates but it also ensured availability of fuel. Without naming names, because they are friendly countries, people in many neighbouring countries still queue to get fuel. They do not have fuel. Our country has fuel and the prices have been coming down almost every month for the last few months. When he said the state of the economy is resilient in terms of food security, it speaks for itself. As I said in moving the Motion and as the President enumerated in his State of the Nation Address, we were buying unga at almost Ksh262 in September 2022."
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"content": "It was Ksh280."
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"content": " Yes, Ksh280. Actually, there is a brand that was retailing at Ksh287. Today the same brands are at an average of Ksh120 and Ksh110. I have even seen some brands going for as low as Ksh90. If indeed the demonstrations that Hon. Robert Mbui, my good friend, was involved in then, during the unga and sufuria movement, were about the price of unga, then he cannot claim that there have not been positive changes since. But that does not mean we do not have room for improvement. We still have a long way to walk. All we call for is focus. I am glad the President and his administration are focused in walking the long journey to bring back our economy to where it ought to be. I am very confident that we shall walk together. In the Legislature, our job is to support the administration in power today with legislative interventions and anchor economic policies that will help them realise the aspirations of the Kenyan people and all the promises that we all made. It does not matter whether you are in the Minority or the Majority party, or whether you support William Ruto as the President or not. If you love your country and are patriotic enough, you must stand out to be counted in support of policies that will anchor good legislation to help us to achieve what we all promised the people of Kenya. I say this aware that we all belong to different political parties. There are those that support this administration and those that do not. In the Minority side, I heard Hon. Mbui speak about these issues yesterday. Whether you support this administration or not, you represent the people of Kenya, and you made certain promises and pledges to them. They elected you on the basis of the things you promised them. I am glad the President remains focused. Even with all the negativity, I am glad he has shut his eyes and ears to it. The President told us that one of our core responsibilities as leaders is to listen. Listen but do not get distracted. Remain focused on what you want to achieve for the greater good of the people of Kenya and our nation. As legislators, we should remain focused. We were elected because the people in our constituencies believed and knew that we knew better, amongst the many other people we competed with. Your task to show the people of Kenya that you know better and they never made a mistake in electing you is by offering leadership. Offering leadership does not always mean doing what is popular. What is popular may not necessarily be right. When we tend to act out of political expediency and playing to the gallery, we may"
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"content": "be doing all the wrong things. But when you do what is right, time will vindicate you. I am confident that time will vindicate the Kenya Kwanza administration and the President. Those who talk about Ruto and lies will know that there is nothing about lies with him. He said in Kiswahili, “Tutawainua walio mavumbini ili wale kwa meza moja na wafalme.” I have listened to Hon. Lenguris saying that she has been a beneficiary of the Taifa Care under the SHIF. I have seen men and women who are boda boda riders and mama mboga testifying and posting online how they have benefited from Taifa Care. If we have a medical care programme under UHC that is taking care of Hon. Pauline Lenguris, a Member of Parliament, the same way it takes care mama mboga and the boda boda person, then there cannot be lies about it. Let me conclude since we are now good. I was taking some time for the obvious. As the President said, as leaders, let us continue listening to our people. Let us reaffirm the resilience of our nation and remain focused to ensure that we succeed. The President said that failure is not an option. I know this rubbed some people the wrong way. I say this on a light note. I was elated and posted and reposted the message. I saw many people online bashing me and asking the number of times I was going to post. I would repost the message again to rub them the wrong way, because I truly believe that failure is not an option and nobody should ever pray that this nation fails. If we are speaking about national values, one of them is patriotism. We have been told before that praying or hoping that your president or nation fails is the height of being unpatriotic. Let us be patriotic Kenyans in line with our national values. Let us all in one accord say that failure is not, cannot and will never be an option for this administration. With that, I beg to reply. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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