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"speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
"speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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"content": "We have had extreme lows. We have lost Members of Parliament, loved ones and had some false starts on some amazing pieces of legislation that would have changed this country. For me, I think one of our worst laws was having Committee Chairpersons and Parliamentary leadership being selected elsewhere other than the precincts of this House by Members of Parliament. I believe this was a false start. I am celebrating the new amended Standing Orders. This is because they will ensure in the next Parliament nobody will be holding the remote control of this House and it shall truly stand independent. I pray that Members of Parliament will be lucky and blessed enough to be re-elected so, they can enjoy the gains of the new Standing Orders. Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) was a big law. Three courts have proclaimed it was unconstitutional and illegal and some of us stood on the Floor of this House to say the same. I take this opportunity to tell the people of Dagoretti South a big thank. I want to tell them to look at the roads done in this tenure, five new high schools in four years, chiefs being moved from"
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