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    "id": 1143499,
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    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Hon. Masara does not even realise that we are debating a Motion that talks about documentation. My having been appointed as a Committee Chair is part of the history that we are talking about. All the same, let me thank the Leader of the Majority Party for having brought this Motion to the Floor of the House. I happen to have been a councillor at the Nakuru Municipality for 10 years and I was elected as the mayor in 2008. If you went to the municipal chambers, you would find the history on the mayors and councillors all over the place. History is very important. I appreciate and support this Motion. Indeed, we need the official documented history of the National Assembly and of Parliament generally. As the Leader of the Majority Party has indicated, it is true that without history this place will remain unknown. A Committee of nine Members of Parliament has been proposed. I hope the membership of the Committee will cut across and particularly include ranking Members. Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi, for example, would be a good source of the history that would be documented. I am not advocating for his inclusion on the Committee, but having been in Parliament for more than five terms it is important for us to consider him. We need the ranking Members. This Parliament has transformed from what we used to know to the current state that includes use of digital gadgets both in the Chamber and in Committee rooms. This history is key. 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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