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    "id": 1119746,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance. This is a very interesting Petition. Occasionally, this House receives all manner of petitions some asking us to do things that challenge our thinking even as Senators and Members of Parliament in terms of our appreciation of how dynamic our society is becoming. This is one such case. This petitioner has presented before us something which listening to you present his writings and what he is requesting this House to do, challenges your own perspective as a leader. Madam Deputy Speaker, on many occasions, citizens have the wrong notion that we have all the solutions to the problems our society faces. However, on a daily basis, we must appreciate and have an open mindset that enables us to grow and challenge ourselves even in terms of knowing what is it we can do to make our society better. Although I do not know much about chess as a sport, but from a general reading and what I know from a few friends who I occasionally find playing chess, is that it is one of the games that really helps in developing one‟s cognitive abilities, your concentration in terms of challenging your processing power and quick thinking. Chess is a game that helps develop skills which the petitioner is rightly pointing to the education stakeholders in this country and makers of policies like ourselves that, if you can introduce these skills to young students at an early age, it will help them become better citizens. They will become problem solvers and critical thinkers from a very young age. It will be interesting when they appear before this House as petitioners because I believe the Committee will grant them a chance to come and convince them, as they"
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