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    "id": 1462069,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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    "content": "To the people of Suba South, I am deeply conscious of the fact that the thrust of dynamic debates and my parliamentary standing on the relevant issues was planted in me at a time of curious and unrelenting search for leadership position by you, my constituents, for three terms. I am grateful for the opportunity to serve you as your Member of Parliament for 15 years. Thank you for your support, organic love and for ensuring that I won with increased majorities over the years. As a community, we did exceedingly well, utilising the NG-CDF to ensure that our children continue to access quality education by strategically renovating and expanding our educational infrastructure and bursaries to cope with the number of students enrolling in schools. We leveraged the participation of our people in meaningful development to transform lives through bigger, broader, better managed and well-resourced constituency projects. We enhanced participatory approaches within the constituency and ensuring judicious use of public resources and many more. Thank you once again for the opportunity to be your Member of Parliament. Now to my fellow Kenyans. I am overwhelmed by the messages of goodwill you sent before, during and after my vetting. My heart is elated with the heartwarming compliments and well wishes I have received so far. This demonstrates the level of confidence and hope Kenyans have in me. And I now come to the Members of the National Assembly. Dear colleagues, I have never shied from playing my role as a Member of this House. I have diligently performed my legislative functions to the best of my knowledge for the last 17 years. To this day, I will cite a few. I have represented my constituents and special interests in the National Assembly as required. I have participated in deliberations and resolutions of issues of concern to the people. I go on record as the only Member of this House who, after meticulously analysing the budget, managed to discover a fictitious computer error of Ksh10 billion in the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2011/2012, which the Ministry later acknowledged. I have participated in the enactment of the legislations in accordance with the Constitution, notably being part of the legislative taskforce that drafted the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. As a Member of the Constitutional Implementation Oversight Committee (CIOC), I actively participated in the actualisation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010, especially the enactment of legislations envisaged in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution. Hon. Speaker, you were with me in the 10th Parliament, and you will remember that being in CIOC was very lucrative in the sense that people really respected you. Even 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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