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    "speaker_name": "Kandara, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alice Wahome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your election by this House as our Speaker. Having said that, I also congratulate your Deputy, Hon. Gladys Shollei, for being elected as the Deputy Speaker. May I then also go further to congratulate each and every Member of this House for a very hard job to ensure that they were elected to this House. I congratulate my colleagues, the women Hon. Members who have been elected from the 29 constituencies. Those constituencies have agreed to elect women MPs. We are 29 and I recognise that we lost 8 women by failure to retain their seats. In the last House, we were 23, and I was the Chairperson of that caucus. We are now 29 women. We hope to retain and get an addition. We appreciate those constituencies that continue to elect women, and specifically my constituency, Kandara, for giving me a third honourable term. I will forever remain grateful. It is an unusual situation for a woman to be elected for three terms. Where I come from, we are still very conservative and, therefore, Kandara Constituency has demonstrated progressive thinking and action towards political development. Thank you. I also want to take this opportunity to thank His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya, Dr. William Samoei Ruto for seeing it fit to appoint me as the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, subject to the approval of this House. The approval is a very important process, and nobody should take this House for granted. Even though some of us have been appointed, I look forward to appearing before the relevant committee. Those who have said that they will approve my name, thank you. I will truly appreciate. Let me make my contribution on the Address by the President. I know that I may not have much time, if I am approved by this House. I am grateful for this opportunity to contribute to the address by His Excellency. To the new Members who may not know me, my name is Alice Muthoni Wahome, Member for Kandara Constituency. Kandara is in Murang’a County, for record purposes. Hon. Speaker, I think it is important to read this Address. I know that we all listened to the Address by His Excellency the President. One key thread that has come out for me is this: He spoke about ensuring that he will run a Government that is transparent and accountable. The role of this House is to hold the Government to account. Therefore, for His Excellency to come out in his own address to uphold the House, and to continue to urge the House to ensure 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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