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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Amagoro",
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute on the President's Speech, which is the Motion on the Floor of the House. Like the other leaders who have spoken here, I also wish to thank the people of Amagoro for voting me back for a second time to represent them in Parliament. I promise I will not let them down. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having come from the Ninth Parliament and with reference to the President's Speech--- Indeed, in the last Parliament, we had a terrible Government. We had Ministers who could not listen to Members of Parliament, which means that even the common person could not be listened to. We brought here so many grievances and they were not addressed. Our people whom we represented listened very keenly. After wananchi having discovered that this Government or the Tenth Parliament which was coming in with the Head of State who was there in the last Government, was going to do the same thing that they had repeated in the Ninth Parliament, probably that is why they behaved the way they did. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in Kenya, sometimes, you have to behave like a mad man in order to be understood. When we were appointing the Members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) in the Old Chamber, Mr. Bifwoli was forced to behave like a mad man. He wanted to be listened to and understood. He behaved like a mad man because the then Vice-President and the few Ministers who were present, had already concluded that they had elected Members of the EALA. This was done before even the meeting started. So, the lessons that we have learnt from the clashes, I think, should send a clear message to those who will be in the Government that the people who we are representing need services and not just empty rhetoric and sycophancy. I am appealing to the President and the Prime Minister-designate to ensure that the people they will appoint are people who are for reforms. They should not just appoint the same people who were there during the colonial days. By so doing, they will give us and Kenyans at large a very good break. Mr. Speaker, Sir, emanating from the President's Speech, he said that he will review the Chiefs Act. We passed the Public Officer Ethics Act here which prevents civil servants, particularly the chiefs and assistant chiefs from participating in politics. However, what happened in the previous elections was very shameful. Indeed, in my constituency, all the assistant chiefs, chiefs, District Officers (DOs) and District Commissioner were actually Party of National Unity (PNU) agents. They were distributing money openly and now they do not have any moral authority even to hold a meeting there."
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