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    "speaker_name": "Kacheliba, KUP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Titus Lotee",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In contributing to today’s Motion, I take this opportunity to recognise that this is my first time to speak in this august House. I beg to get some time to be able to give my maiden speech. Above all, I want to thank the Almighty God for having allowed me the opportunity to serve the people of Kacheliba. At the same time, I wish to congratulate you for having been elected as the Deputy Speaker of this House. I know the capacity that you have, as I have worked with you before. I am sure that you are able to perform above and beyond the expectations of this House based on our previous engagement. I also watched you when you worked in the Judiciary. You did us proud. I wish to thank the people of Kacheliba. These are the people that brought me into this august House. It was my first attempt to come here, and they were able to give me the opportunity, most particularly the women that wore the most adorable, magnanimous and unique trademark cloth called Lorwaa of Kacheliba. You actually need to see this clothing for you to appreciate the kind of women who voted for me. I wish to thank them most profusely for giving me the opportunity, and trusting in my capabilities to be able to represent their issues in this House. I thank particularly the Chairman of my party, the Kenya Union Party (KUP), that gave me the ticket to vie and be an honourable Member of this august House. Thank you very much the people of Kacheliba, the youth, those that believed in my capacity and those that will continue to believe in it. I thank my predecessor of Kacheliba Constituency. I want to promise that it was a political duel, and not enmity. The people had their trust, and I am able to continue with the work that you did. I wish you well in your endeavours. I wish you well, Mheshimiwa Mark Lomunokol, the one that I dethroned. Hon. Deputy Speaker, today, we are here to contribute to the Motion of the committees that are going to vet the CSs. I want to appreciate the fact that we are giving the task to discuss about these committees and also to give them what is on our minds. I strongly believe that the Constitution is clear, and the President has followed the Constitution when he appointed seven out of the 21 women. Personally, I know that vetting can throne and dethrone some of those women. I ask this House to consider more specifically the fact that when the women that are nominated by the President are brought in for vetting, those Committees need to be very humane in understanding them. The reason is that there are seven women out of 21 Cabinet Secretary nominees. If one of them is vetted out, it basically means that we are not going to get the one-third gender rule that we always looked for. I think the President never allowed us to 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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