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    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Zachary Thuku",
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Sorry for that temporary interruption by Hon. (Ms.) Jennifer Shamala. I take this opportunity first to thank you for the opportunity to address and give my exit speech or rather my speech towards the end of this Session. At the outset, I want to thank God for giving me an opportunity to serve the people of Kinangop. To the great people of Kinangop, I will forever be grateful for the chance to serve that great constituency that happens to be the biggest in Nyandarua County in terms of population and vastness. In addition, we have done much. I have represented them effectively to the extent that we have tremendous growth owing to the level of my skills in negotiation and in terms of lobbying for projects from the national Government. We have grown immensely. Kinangop had not experienced the kind of growth that it has experienced in the last five years. We have established two colleges: a technical training college and a Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC). In fact, we got to an extent where we had to change the policy in the Ministry of Health whereby KMTC is only built around hospitals but because of the scarcity of land and areas to expand we decided that that policy had to go. This is so that within the proximity of the hospital, then we could acquire land and build these colleges, which are very instrumental in terms of getting the required human resource for our hospitals and health workers in all cadres. Hon. Speaker, I have also had a moment to learn and I must appreciate your effort in leading us and ensuring that we are conversant with the Standing Orders of this House, which you are so well conversant with. I give you credit for that. In addition, it has given us an opportunity to really do things as per the rules, regulations and in terms of traditions of this House. We have done and learnt much. Specifically, I want to thank you for being so kind with some of us who were doing first terms. You accommodated us through the learning curve. I also happened to benefit by serving in three committees that are very important in this House though I do not want to mean that there are committees that are less important. I served in the Departmental Committee on Health, and the Public Investments Committee where I gave my contributions based on my background in terms of training. I think the Hansard will judge me very politely for being very instrumental in that Committee. I also served in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I must appreciate the Chairmen of these two committees especially the Departmental Committees on Defence and Foreign Relations and the PIC who are now going to run for gubernatorial positions. Of course, I wish them well. They delegated some of their responsibilities to us to learn. As we transit to the next Parliament, God willing, we can be more effective in the 13th Parliament. I believe the people of Kinangop believe we still have unfinished business that we have to do in the next five years. Hon. Speaker, one thing I am so proud of having served as a Member of Parliament is that I have placed so many children in school. I have been an advocate of education in my constituency and for sure I have been telling them that education is wealth. In the interest of 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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