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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to thank God for the gift of life, also the gift of health and all the providences that have managed me to be in this House. There are some things I have learnt from you and admire. One, is your patience and humour that has kept us going. You have also gone through free showers during those water bottles. You went through them all. As for the mastery of the Standing Orders, that has been amazing to me. I am challenged by the Standing Orders in Swahili. I am working on my Swahili. When I come back, I do not think the MP for Mvita and others will intimidate me. Therefore, those are take home messages which I got from you. I wish you well. I want to give you a text, which is Jeremiah 29:11: Let no one tell you, you cannot. Your future is bright wherever you will end up in. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the people of Ndhiwa and especially the NG- CDF members. When I started there was no institution of higher learning in Ndhiwa as a whole as big as it is. However, working with them, we have managed to build KMTC which now has over 100 students. We have also initiated the Raila Amolo Odinga University of Agriculture and Technology, a branch of Tom Mboya University. I thank the Ndhiwa community for that opportunity. In addition, we were the pioneers of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) hubs when it was floated that we could allocate the NG-CDF. I allocated for two and now they are five. Out of that, amazingly through the help of the Ministry of ICT, we have managed to employ 40 youth who are now transcribing all those things written by lawyers into a digital platform. In addition, I expect to do seven of them in the seven wards. Allow me to also thank Hon. Sabina Chege. When I came here, I had only one Committee which I was frequenting. Hon. Sabina, as a Chair, gave me the opportunity to chair that Committee whenever she was not there. That taught me a lot. In the same line, I want to thank my colleagues: Hon. (Dr.) Dahir, Hon. (Prof.) Umar, and Hon. Thuku for the support they gave me as a de facto Chair so to speak as we were going through many Bills. We managed to pass dozens of Bills."
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