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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Joe. Nyutu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to welcome the students and teachers from Weithaga Boys High School. This is a school located in Wangu Ward of Kiharu Constituency, County of Murangá. This is a school that prides itself of having produced the first Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) holder in the country. That is Dr. Julius Gikonyo Kiano. As I welcome this group of students and their teachers, I want to encourage them that what Dr. Gikonyo Kiano did those many years is still possible. There are others that went through Weithaga Boys High School. They include Prof. Kamweya of the University of Eldoret (UoE), Prof. Abel Macharia and the former Governor of Murang’a County, among others. I may not agree with the former Governor’s political theatrics and style but he was honoured by the people of Murang’a for two terms. The Governor also went to the same school. I want to tell these young men that the future is bright for them and that they are in the right school. This is a school that has been taking quite a number of students to the university too. We had 90 students in 2022 and 75 in 2021. So, it is a school that performs well. I ask you, my dear sons, to be obedient to your teachers. You should respect them. I was a teacher. I taught in high school for quite a number of years and I know that any student who works hard, respects their teachers and parents and, of course, has faith in God, is bound to make it. So, we know that we have engineers, future Members of the Senate and the National Assembly among other professions sitting up there. As you go back, know that you can come back to this House as a Member, if not Members of Parliament (MPs). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not want to take much time. I also congratulate the teachers for taking care of these young men. Through the principal, we thank them for making the decision to come and visit the Senate."
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