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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hope you said Member for Kikuyu not Kikuyus. I represent the people of Kikuyu Constituency, which is very cosmopolitan. I know it could be a slip of the tongue to mention Kikuyus. Let me also join the rest of the House to congratulate you on the role bestowed on you in the Njuri-Ncheke shrine in Meru. As the Hon. Member for Rangwe mentioned, it is only honourable for us as Members of Parliament to be honourable to ourselves and to fellow Members, including you. You will appreciate that the many Members, including Hon. Millie Odhiambo, who have congratulated you this afternoon, are not doing so because you have been named as a spokesman of a region. They are congratulating you because they respect you as the Speaker and a Member of this House. They also respect you as an elder statesman in this country because the position you hold today as Speaker of the National Assembly is no mean feat. I did not know about your bestowment as a spokesman. Because I have no ill faith against anybody or any Member of this House, I appreciated that the people and elders of Meru have seen something in you and decided to bestow on you the role of spokesman. I know that a week before, the elders from Embu had done the same. I pray that the elders from the larger Mt. Kenya region, the Kiama Kia Ma, will also do the same to you and we will appreciate. The only thing I would ask of all of us is to respect each other. I was rather taken aback when I saw one of the nominated Members, who ought to be an elder in our community - and I do not know if the Chair of the National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity Committee, Hon. Kamanda, is here - say some very disparaging things against you, not just in your new position as a spokesman of a region, but also as Speaker of this House. The Majority Whip, the Member for Igembe North, Hon. Maoka Maore, said very unpalatable things about you on a television (TV) station. That is behavior that we must condemn as a House. We must respect you."
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