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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we were looking at ways of ending the female genital mutilation (FGM) and cattle rustling in the country. There are amendments he had directed my sub-committee to process along those lines. I would crave the accommodation of the leadership of the House through you when they come before you. Lastly was the Nyumba Kumi Initiative and it is a very painful thing that we have lost him. I remember when we left Garissa, he called me for a public rally in Ruaka, in his constituency, and I had been to his constituency severally. What a leader the people of Kiambaa have lost! We pray that God may keep his soul in eternal peace. Hon. Speaker, let me also register my gratitude to the Members of Parliament for the support they gave Hon. Koinange in his hour of need. When an alarm was raised that Hon. Koinange needed blood, we went there and all the Members who went there their blood could not be taken that day. In fact, we had to be staggered. I thank the Members for being there for him. I thank all the Members of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. What I would pray is that the House, the leadership of the nation and the leadership of Parliament gives us a chairperson of the Committee with whom we can serve, as the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security, to further those things which Hon. Koinange died for. Lastly, Hon. Speaker, permit me to say this. By the time of his passing on, we had gone to 41 counties across the country meeting the police commands, national Government administration officers and listening to their challenges. We were doing a report by the time of his death which we intended to table here. This was a report which targeted very fundamental reforms in our police service, reforms which would conclude the police reforms which we had started. This was a report which was going to ensure stability in the correctional services. This was a report which was going to ensure that there is complete stability in the Public Service Commission and all sectors which were under our charge. In keeping with his legacy, all the Members of the Committee knew what we stood for and how passionately he felt about them. When we bring it, may I request that the Members support us in keeping his legacy on the matters we will set out in that report. May the Almighty God keep the soul of our brother, Hon. Paul Koinange, in eternal peace. We are happy to serve and keep his legacy. I thank you."
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