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    "speaker_name": "Bishop Wanjiru",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
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        "legal_name": "Margaret Wanjiru Kariuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support. I have been involved in two by-elections, one last year and another one this year. I have worked with some of the individuals whose names are in the list before us, in particular the Chairperson, Mr. Ahmed Isaack Hassan. I have worked with him and one thing I have learnt is that he is not only patient, but is also a man of integrity. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this goes to those who are arguing on the basis of religion. Integrity is not the state of your religion but the state of your heart. Integrity is not the state of your friends and those people from your region. Integrity is the state of the principles that you have decided to live by within yourself. Having worked very closely with Isaack Hassan in two by-elections, I want to say that if we do not give him an opportunity to be the Chairperson of this team, this will be very detrimental to our country. The man has been tried, and the man is acceptable. For those who are arguing on religious basis, I want to remind them that I am a preacher of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am a Bishop, anointed and ordained, but I do not discriminate on the basis of religion. I am left wondering where we are taking our country, or this is proving that we have been deceptive from the beginning. A few months ago, we were arguing on the basis of region. People would say that so-and-so was not from their region. They would ask where a certain candidate came from. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now shifting from regions to religions. I am standing here as a religious leader to say that I will not sit here and watch this House divide the nation along religious lines. It is not acceptable!"
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