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    "speaker_name": "Hon. John Njuguna Wanjiku, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Kiambaa",
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    "content": "I also want to take this opportunity to thank the UDA Party for not asking me a million and one questions. I would want to thank Madam Secretary General, Veronicah Marina. When it turned out that there was going to be a by-election in Kiambaa, I went to her office and she gave me an opportunity to be heard. Today I am the Member of Parliament for Kiambaa, a constituency that has never had an opportunity to elect a young Parliamentarian before. I am the first and would like to thank them. I also want to thank the women of Kenya, and especially those from Kiambaa. I want to tell the single mothers from Kiambaa Constituency that it does not matter the challenges they are facing today as they bring up those young kids. It does not matter who the fathers of those kids are and which families they come from. I want to encourage them wherever they are. I also want to sincerely thank my late mother, Mrs. Philomena Wanjiku Karanja, even though she is not around, for believing in me, giving me an opportunity and also for bringing me up in a manner that other kids have been brought up. I thank the women of this great Republic and tell them that their children can still make it. If I made it to be the Member for Kiambaa, then it does not matter where you come from. As long as you have a dream, vision and faith in God, one day you will become what you believe in. I also thank the Almighty God for keeping me alive and seeing me through the kind of by- election that we witnessed in Kiambaa. I take this opportunity to seriously condemn the Government for bringing machineries that we have never witnessed before in Kiambaa. Kiambaa is a peaceful area. We have never had violence before but during this particular by-election, some of the cars and chiefs in uniform, who went round bribing people… I would like to ask the Government of the Republic of Kenya to allow Kenyans to make their own decisions when it comes to exercising their democratic right to elect the leaders they want to represent them, be it in the National Assembly, the Senate or the Presidency. Let us give Kenyans an opportunity to exercise their democratic right without influencing. I sincerely thank the Kiambaa people because even after all the intimidation that happened on the election day, they did not bow down to pressure or victimisation. They decided and elected me as their Member of Parliament on a UDA ticket. I thank all the people of Kiambaa. I take this opportunity to also thank the ‘hustler nation’ in the whole Republic of Kenya. I want to tell them if they had any doubt that the ‘hustler nation’ is lean, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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