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    "id": 159163,
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    "speaker_name": "April 21, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2 Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Your Excellency, hon. Members, distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasant duty and exclusive honour to welcome you to Parliament Buildings on this auspicious occasion of the State Opening of the Third Session of the Tenth Parliament. This ceremony is taking place at a most momentous time in the life history of our country. First, the Coalition Government credited with reclaiming tranquility in our motherland is besieged with apparent unhealthy intrigue that sometimes threatens to overshadow the tenets of governance that we are all about. Allow me, hon. Members, to at the very outset, capture the irony of the time by asserting that we all enjoy the rare privilege of an opportunity to make history that only a chosen few are lucky to have, to make an immortal positive difference. History is beckoning at us to go into its annals as that generation of politicians that rose to the national challenge that the citizenry of Kenya expect of a people they have placed their trust in, by your election, to demonstrate the extra ordinary leadership that this extra ordinary times demand. As an institution, Parliament has been under incessant attack for more than one reason by, among others, our veritable partner in governance the “Fourth Estate”. This is because we were elected to lead, reform, and make Kenya a great country. What is coming through, therefore, is a potent message that after one and a quarter years, Kenyans are hungry for a win; they want to see entries on the scorecard. They are not prepared to wait infinitely. We must, therefore, rise to the occasion. We must move away from sideshows, small talk and stop hitting below the belt to gain unfair advantage, or for that matter, start fresh battles. We owe it to the country to embrace each other and collectively join together and show our ability to weather all storms threatening our nationality or territorial integrity such as the Migingo saga."
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