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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my last remarks as a legislator. I am one of the few Senators who did not begin this Senate at its beginning. I want to appreciate all my colleagues, who we have worked very well with. I also want to appreciate you, Madam Deputy Speaker, and the substantive Speaker, for the tranquility and sobriety you have created in the environment in which we debate. Madam Deputy Speaker, through your leadership, this House has lived to its billing as a mature House and as a House of decorum, unlike its sister and younger House. I joined Parliament many years ago. It was a Parliament that was vulnerable. This Parliament that I joined recently, is a Parliament that is maturing and it is a Parliament that is fast growing. I want to appreciate the professionals who are in the Clerk’s Chambers, who have contributed immensely to the maturity and delivery of services and legislation policies in this House. I believe that they are up to the calling and serve the Members very diligently. I want to appreciate their courtesy, professionalism and want to encourage the Parliamentary Service Commission to continue training and building their capacities because they are excellent public servants. I do not want to say more about my experience here. I share the sentiments and experiences that my colleagues have articulated very well. I have been in and out of Parliament many times and this is my last time as a parliamentarian. I want to encourage those who are going out of Parliament the way I am exiting Parliament that there is a lot of life out there. Whether you win, lose or go out by choice, there is a lot of life out there. I want to plead with those of us who are going out for whatever reason, not to lower the image and the credibility of former parliamentarians. Go out there and make it big and successful. Carry all the dignity and privilege you had here and apply it out there. There are many occasions and opportunities where you will be called upon to offer leadership. Live up to the experience and billing that you acquired here. I also believe that I am on the right course to taking up my next assignment of being the Governor of Migori County. I have had the privilege as the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) to see some of the infractions that are done by some of the governors. I have also had the privilege of looking at most of our counties and seeing the ones that are doing well. I hope with God’s strength, I will have the wisdom to steer the great County of Migori better than it has been steered in the past. I also hope that I will have the humility to understand that being a governor is a privilege, but being a people’s servant is a duty."
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