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    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I take this opportunity to support the Motion. Firstly, I begin by congratulating President William Samoei Ruto on my own behalf, on behalf of the people of Emuhaya, and on behalf of the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party. I support and congratulate the President because he made sure that Raila was supported for this position. Ordinarily, it would not be easy for a person who you had been competing with. I saw him exude the spirit of brotherhood and Kenyanhood. I also thank him for taking us to that space. A new-born Kenyan would imagine that that was the first time we were having the African Union Commission (AUC) elections. It is a space to which Kenyans had not been exposed to. The publicity, the campaigns, and the aura it was given set the stage. Secondly, let me congratulate Hon. Raila Amolo Odinga. He has now risen beyond being a leader of a small area in this country. He is now a statesman. He now joins Pan- Africanists like W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, and others. He has shown very clearly that he is above the ordinary small politics of Kenya. Nevertheless, he rises beyond that level to support Kenya whenever there is need. A Member came up with a list of milestones that he has achieved, but I want to mention the most recent one. We recently had a situation where everybody thought that Hon. Raila should use the available opportunity to destabilise the country after the Gen Zs riots. He stepped up and calmed the waters. That is a statesman. The two leaders went through a very rigorous session of praying together in Addis Ababa, surmounting certain challenges and 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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