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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Geoffrey Omuse",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Teso South",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I take this opportunity to make my maiden speech. I am a Member of Parliament for Teso South elected on an Orange Democratic Party (ODM) ticket. I thank God Almighty and the constituents of Teso South for having faith in me. I thank my party leader, the Right Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. I also thank my family, both immediate and extended, and all those who stood with me during my campaigns. I know I will perform the best. At this point, I also thank the outgoing Member, Hon. Mary Emasse. She is my sister. We campaigned alongside other aspirants and I know we will work together so that we can achieve what the society and Kenya as a nation is supposed to achieve. I support this Motion. This issue is long overdue. I thank the Member, Hon. Julius Melly, for coming up with this Motion, which I want us to debate soberly. It is for the good of Kenya. I do not think there is any cost that is beyond human life. Even if we are going to incur a lot of costs on this, especially on the issue of KeRRA, it is worth the cost. Members have said that there is no need to incur other expenses for unnecessary roads in the rural areas. We might just put a provision that in future, we have to factor KeRRA roads. We never know. We will not remain rural forever. I support the Motion fully. I urge the implementing authorities to kindly uphold the rule of law and ensure that whichever laws are passed here are fully implemented. Finally, yesterday we witnessed the swearing in of President Uhuru Kenyatta. As NASA, we are still alive to the fact that we are not moving on. We are only saying that we are brothers and sisters of this nation and let us accept the truth that the nation is divided. It is upon the leadership to come and sit down and chart a way forward for this nation. We need each other. This House cannot be complete without NASA. Neither will it be complete without the Jubilee Party. So, whichever way we see it, this nation has to come together and it is upon the President, like he said yesterday, and the NASA leader, Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga, to see to it that we need a united Kenya that our forefathers thought about. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion."
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