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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka Nithi CWR, TSP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Susan Ngugi",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker. I am delighted as I make my maiden speech and debate a little about the Presidential Speech that was made about two weeks ago. I wish to congratulate you for having been elected Speaker in this 13th Parliament. It is a great honour as I stand in this House as the second Woman Representative or rather the Member of Parliament (MP) for Tharaka Nithi County. I first wish to thank the people of Tharaka Nithi County for bestowing on me strength to lead them in the affirmative action. It was not easy being lifted from a Member of County Assembly (MCA) to an MP; being lifted from a County Assembly to a National Parliament; and, winning against all the strides and tides having been elected in a non-dominating party. I also wish to thank my party leader of The Service Party (TSP) whom I deputise, Hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri, for holding my hand and helping me clinch the victory. I am here to affirm to the people of Tharaka Nithi County that I have not come here to make a career, but to make a difference in their lives. I have not come here to act in my own interest, but the interest of the people of Tharaka Nithi County. I wish to affirm to them that I will really hold hands with the MPs; that is, MP for Tharaka Hon. George Gitonga Murugara, MP for Maara Hon. Kareke Mbiuki and MP for Chuka/Igambang’ombe Hon. Patrick Munene, to ensure that we promote the issues of Tharaka Nithi County, especially the issues of the affirmative action. I know Tharaka Nithi County has really been marginalised and has faced a lot of historical injustices, but with the leadership of Kenya Kwanza Alliance under His Excellency William Samoei Ruto, we are assured that all these issues are going to be addressed. This has really been demonstrated by the fact that our President has gone to the most remote part of Tharaka Nithi County, Tharaka Constituency, and to the most remote part of Tharaka, Irunduni Village, where he has nominated a Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, Prof. Kithure Kindiki. I wish to congratulate him and pray that this House will very soon move ahead and confirm Prof. Kithure Kindiki as the Cabinet Secretary. Hon. Speaker, we are really hopeful that it is just a matter of time that someone from the soil of Tharaka Nithi County is going to rule this country. I cannot end my maiden speech without commending my predecessor, Hon. Beatrice Nkatha, for having been elected twice as Woman Representative for Tharaka Nithi County. United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party and the Kenya Kwanza Alliance are well aware of the role that Hon. Nkatha played in spearheading the campaigns for UDA party. In this regard, I pray that UDA and Kenya Kwanza Alliance will recognize the efforts by Hon. Nkatha. I also wish her well in all her endeavours. As pertains the President's Speech, it was brief and to the point. The Speech has reassured us that we are not to tear apart institutions but to nourish them and that, we are to nurture this nation. I wish to end it with a note: That the future of this nation does not belong to the faint-hearted, but to the brave. I thank you Hon. Speaker and this House."
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