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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "I believe in the theory of political science that talks about the horseshoe theory, that people from opposing sides might end up meeting because there are no people from two extreme sides of the median, but there are people who have an interest that can converge at a place. You are one of those people who walk on the middle of the road and are bi-partisan. I believe that is why the Njuri Ncheke identified you as one exemplary leader in this country. What we witnessed over the weekend was a lesson to those of us in politics; organic leadership in this country can work better at times than democracy. Organic leadership is not bought. It calls for persuasion and consensus. It does not go for coercion and violence. So, when we observed that very beautiful event over the weekend, we took something that we can apply in our politics even as we go back to constituencies. We observed that a rally can be held peacefully. That a rally does not need to be interrupted by police and that administration officers have no business whatsoever meddling in politics as we saw last week during the by- elections. Politics can be done to achieve a consensus even with two opposing sides. My reason of rising was to congratulate you and thank you for the amazing leadership you have given in this House, and the hope that you have given to the future of this country up to and including that young boy in Embu who is what you were many decades ago who saw what happened in Meru and believes that one day, he can be decorated as you were decorated by the Njuri Ncheke . You gave hope to the hustler nation of this country in your coronation. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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