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"speaker_name": "Lugari, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Nabii Nabwera",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for according me this opportunity. This being my Maiden Speech, I request for ten minutes. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I congratulate you for being elected to the Chairperson’s Panel. I also congratulate Hon. Wetang’ula for being elected the Speaker of this House. Further, I congratulate my colleagues for being elected Members of the 13th Parliament. In the same vein, I thank the people for Lugari Constituency for giving me an opportunity to serve as their Member of the National Assembly. Equally important, I would like to congratulate my ODM party and party leader Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga for staying true to the course of democratic change and ensuring that this country reaps the fruits of devolution. Even as we sit here and celebrate the democratic gains that we have achieved so far, I would like to state that I come from a constituency that has been discriminated against. In 2008, the then President Mwai Kibaki laid a foundation stone for the tarmacking of Road C42 that connects Turbo and Shikhendu but to-date not a single kilometre of that road has been tarmacked. In 1992, the then President Moi set aside land to be allocated to people of Lugari and Maanzini but to-date, the people of Lugari are still squatters as the said land has not been gazetted. That is how unfair the Government has been to the people of Lugari. Coming to the matter before the House, I would like to congratulate the Committee. I find fault that we have been provided with a list of Cabinet nominees that is not in conformity with the Constitution of Kenya. There is no youth or person with disability in the list of nominees. If we become a House that rubberstamps things that are unconstitutional, history will judge us harshly. Looking at this list, and looking at my colleagues of the female gender contributing to this debate in support of a person who attempted to have carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent, I cry. When I look at that list, and I see people glorifying a nominee simply because she came from a humble background, I wonder. How many Members here come from humble backgrounds?"
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