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    "id": 1110155,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in congratulating our youngest Senator, Sen. Isaac Ngugi. The first time I saw the name, I was privileged to ask my neighbour here, Sen. (Dr.) Zani, who Sen. Ngugi is. By coincidence, Sen. (Dr.) Zani informed me that Sen. Ngugi is a person she has known for a while and that he was her student at the University of Nairobi in Social Statistics. She confided to me that as a teacher she passed a judgement that he was a young brilliant mind. That has been confirmed to me because it was just last week that Sen. Ngugi was escorted to the House, and within a couple of days, before two weeks, he has exhibited courage by rising up to give his Maiden Speech. Congratulations Sen. Ngugi! I have carefully listened to your Speech. I discern from your Speech that you have a passion for the youth. I can assure you that if you go back to your counties, your job is cut out for you. You realize that not many counties have complied with the procurement laws that obligate counties to award contracts to women and youth. Even the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), very few Members of Parliament have acknowledged the role we should do to empower our youths by giving them contracts. I am happy that you have stated on the Floor, in your Maiden Speech, that you will passionately champion the rights of the youth. If you look at our statistics, you are the majority and we are the minority. I think about 75 per cent of our population in this country is made up of the youth. That is people aged between 18 to 35 years. I hope you will be the ambassador of the youth in this Senate and you will be at the forefront in championing issues that affect the youth. There are so many youths that have registered companies in the hope and expectation that county governments will give contracts, but that has not happened. I hope you will take it up. You are coming to replace the late Sen. Prengei, a very pleasant and jovial young man, who we miss in this House. He was the one who used to put us together in sports. I hope you will be a leading sportsman in this House and that other than just replacing him as a Nominated Senator, you will also take up some of the roles he used to do. We look forward to working with you. I urge you to also learn from the many seniors we respect a lot in this House. We have Senior Counsel, Sen. Orengo, Attorney General Emeritus, Sen. Wako and Sen. Wetangula, to mention but a few. These are Members who will walk with you. I hope you do not fear them. Take time to develop friendship with them, so that you keep learning from their vast experience as Members of Parliament. I wish you well in your new task as a Nominated Senator. Congratulations and welcome to the Senate."
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