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    "id": 1054848,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Murang’a CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Sabina Chege",
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        "legal_name": "Sabina Wanjiru Chege",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me join my colleagues in congratulating you on the newly acquired role and the respect you got from Njuri-Ncheke . As a person from the region, I am very proud of you and I know you got what it takes. You have a big role first and foremost starting from this House to bring all of us together. I have always challenged you as our Speaker that you can be able to mobilise all of us especially where we are headed to. I am very sure and I believe in your leadership. We can come together and make sure that the handshake also works. Hon. Speaker, why I had raised my intervention is about three matters. One, before we went for recess in the last Parliament, I brought up an issue about Gituamba land and we had a long and lengthy session with the Departmental Committee on Lands, but among the prayers of the petitioners was that there were trees that were being planted on that land and they were growing. As you know, with nature, having a petition did not stop the trees from growing. I have not got a response from the Departmental Committee on Lands. I am afraid that the community might take the law onto their hands. So, I request that the Departmental Committee on Lands tables that report so that we are able to have a closure on that matter with the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA). Secondly, if I remember well, we passed a Motion such that the issues we had raised last session before we went on recess would not die. Some of those issues were a question about some tea farmers who are not able to pick their tea because they wanted to be moved from the factory. You committed the question to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. I have not had a response and since then it is now many months and the farmers are still stranded and we do not have an answer. I also have several Bills. There is the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill. I met with the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, but somehow down the line, I do not know what happened to that Bill. I also had the Breastfeeding Mothers Bill. It is a Bill that we had passed in this Parliament last time, but we did not get to the last phase. So, it died with the"
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