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    "speaker_name": "Kiambu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon Ann Wamuratha",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. My name is Ann Muratha, the Woman Representative for Kiambu County. I first want to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election as Deputy Speaker of this House and also congratulate Hon. Speaker for his election too. I also want to congratulate our President for giving us leadership during the campaigns and allowing us to get the opportunity to be elected by the people. I personally want to thank the people of Kiambu for believing in me and giving me thousands of their votes to come and represent them in this august House. I am, indeed, very grateful for the 12 constituencies in Kiambu County and the 60 wards that believed in me and gave me their thousands of votes. I want to assure them that I am going to represent them in this House, and that God giving me his grace, I will serve all of them as is the wish I had when I requested them to give me their votes. There is an issue that I have been thinking about in this House now that we have just come from an election. There are people who still do not believe they lost elections. I want our people to know and understand that the situation the country is in after the election season is not good. People are suffering out there. People are tired of politics and nonsensical dramas. All that people want are leaders to now work for them, regardless of their political parties. We have to understand that we have to come together for the sake of our country. I get irritated when I see some people who believe being in the Opposition means fighting everything that the Government is doing. My prayer is that we work together. I would like us to work together. I want to raise the issue of illicit brew in Kiambu, which has destroyed young people. I want us to look into such issues as a House. Let us see how we can help the counties that are going through such problems. I also want us to talk about mental wellness. Our people are killing one another every day. Members of families are dying every day: husbands killing wives and children thus destroying their families. We need to be sitting together as Kenyan leaders to speak on behalf of our people. We must come up with ways of developing centres that will take care of mental health. We should be able to help officers serving in the forces, say, Kenya Defence Forces 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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