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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Igembe North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Julius M’anaiba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. Let me take a cue from my colleagues and congratulate you for being elected as the Deputy Speaker of this House. I also congratulate the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Wetangula Masika. Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the President and his deputy for being unequivocally elected. Allow me to also congratulate the great people of Igembe for giving me an opportunity to serve them as their Member of the 13th Parliament. This is a great honour and I assure them that I will not squander this opportunity. I will serve them diligently with a lot of commitment and honour. Allow me to give a little background of Igembe North. As the name suggests, Igembe North is one of the constituencies at the far end of Mount Kenya. It is the northern-most constituency in Meru. In this regard, it borders Isiolo County. All the five wards of Igembe North touch Isiolo County at one end. This, therefore, means that the marginal belt of Igembe North is quite wide. In relation to the Motion before us, we are aware that mapping has been done and some counties have been mapped as red-alert counties. I would urge the Government to make sure that, as per the sub-county poverty and drought indices, Igembe North is considered as one of the sub-counties that should be on the red-alert programme. Igembe’s economic mainstay is"
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