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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Shiyonga",
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        "legal_name": "Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga",
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    "content": "Thank you so much Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to give my last remarks in this House, hoping that I will come back. In whichever House that God will bless me with, be it the Senate or the ‘Lower House’, I will be able to serve. As we come to the end of this Twelfth Parliament, I take this opportunity to thank the Almighty God for granting me a gift of life to be here and for enabling me to associate, share and contribute to this wonderful House; the Senate of Kenya. It is only through God that I was able to do what I was mandated to do. I am grateful for being given opportunity to serve as Chair of the National Cohesion Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration through the “handshake”. I appreciate and congratulate my able leader of Azimio Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga and his Excellency President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. They enabled me to become the Chair, being a first nominated Senator and as a woman to serve as a Chair in this House. It was not easy. When we came here, it was not easy but it was made easier when the changes were made. They immediately recognised my capability and gave me that responsibility. I enjoyed working with the Committee with the success of those Members who I will mention here including Sen. Pareno who is in the Speaker’s Panel. There is also Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve, who was the champion for the People living with Disabilities (PWD) and who contributed a lot towards that. Also, Sen. Chebeni, Sen. Iman, Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe, Sen. Cherargei and Sen. (Dr.) Lang’at who are really on me but I was able to contain them. I was very happy because they contributed a lot to the Committee. I will not forget my Secretariat was able to make my work easy in the Committee after being introduced to that new job. This enabled me to run the Committee very well. I will mention Veronica Kibati, the Principal Clerk, Leruk, Ann Kagogo the researcher, Munyua and Reuben Kimosop and the Serjeant-at-Arms. They made sure that my Committee was working and we improved a lot in fast tracking the legislative agenda of this House. I am so happy to extend my gratitude to the other Members of the Senate especially the many lawyers who are n this Senate that enabled me to know how the Bills are made. They made some of us grow very fast especially by coming up with legislation, Motions and Petitions. They enabled us to make that friendship. We worked hand-in-hand just to make sure that we learnt very fast. People were thinking we were second term Members"
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