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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Embu County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Pamela Njeru",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to address this House for the first time as an elected Member, the County Women Representative of Embu County. I also want to thank you for this opportunity to give my maiden speech. I also want to congratulate our Speaker in absentia, and say that indeed, this was overwhelming to us. We congratulate you and him on being elected. We know that you will take us very far. Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate our President and the Deputy President on being elected during the elections on 9th August. We have the confidence that they will, indeed, deliver on their promises they made to Kenyans. We are here to support him fully in all his agenda. I also want to thank God for what he has done in my life. I thank him for his faithfulness thus far, and for giving me the opportunity to be here as elected by the Embu community. It has taken the hand of God. Allow me to also thank the people of the cloth, that is the church ministers, who stood with me throughout the campaign period. They prayed for me and gave me an opportunity even to be with them in their churches. As I continue, it also feels good to remember to thank my family members who stood and supported me during the campaign period. I thank my campaign teams and coordinators in all the four sub-counties in Embu. They supported me fully. We are talking about the sub- counties of Manyatta, Runyenjes, Mbeere North and Mbeere South. I can only say thank you to them. I can only wish that my parents were alive to enjoy the victory that I got. But I know that wherever they are, I know they are cheering me on and saying “well done my daughter”. I thank the people of Embu for electing me to serve them in the capacity of a County Women Member of Parliament with overwhelming votes. Indeed, when they said “ Double N mapemamapema ”, they truly meant it. They woke up early in the morning and gave me over 141,000 votes, being the person with the highest number of votes in Embu. I really thank them from the bottom of my heart. May God bless them, keep them and give them the energy to continue with the same spirit. Hon. Deputy Speaker, also allow me to congratulate the President for his wonderful speech which was brief, credible and well-articulated. Regarding the speech, the reduction of the cost of fertiliser from Kshs.6,500 to Kshs.3,500, this was a dream come true for our farmers. We can only thank him for what he did. Though the process of acquiring the same is a bit cumbersome, in Embu we have only two depots in Embu Town and in Iciara, we can only have good manners to say thank you when good things are done to us. We appreciate and hope for the best. As I continue with the President’s Speech and the reactions, I support him for what he said about the Hustler Fund. About Kshs50 billion will be given to the Hustler Fund so that indeed the common mwananchi, the bodabodas, and the mama mbogas can access that Fund. Micro, small and medium enterprises will access affordable credit to start and expand their business. I thank him for that and I fully support him. Due to the drought currently existing in the country and in Embu, I plead with the Government; even as they distribute food relief to other counties, Embu should not be left out The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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