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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Thuo",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Juja",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Thuo",
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    "content": "At that point, I will consider my support for hon. Charity Ngilu who has been waiting for a long while. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also dare our leadership to have big dreams. We heard from hon. Samoei when he quoted the example of the tourists in France. This country has a lot to offer but we do not have big dreamers. We do not have people who want to dream big dreams. We want to compromise and go for the small ones. There is nothing to stop us from doing the things that have been done elsewhere. If you go to places like Brazil, they boast of having the biggest stadium, the Marakana Stadium, with talks of a cable car into what they call the sugar loaf which has several million tourists more than Kenya does as a country. These facilities were built in the 1920s and 1930s by people who were visionary. In the year 2008, we do not have a plan to do anything close to that. What a scandal! I challenge all of us to rise to the occasion and to accept that we have a responsibility to dream on behalf of our children and then to actualise it. I would not be good if I concluded my contribution without mentioning my constituency, Juja. It is a land of very many facts, one of which is that we are the single largest constituency in the whole of the Mt. Kenya region. We are very proud to have had the highest votes in the country for His Excellency the President. I assure you that they were not stolen. They were genuine. In fact, they are understated. We are also proud of the fact that we gave the Prime Minister Designate the highest votes in Central Kenya region. So, we did a bit of fair work. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have spoken about the constitutional change and fair representation. I want to add my voice to those who were calling for a review of electoral boundaries. With 166,000 voters, Juja cannot be compared to Lamu East which has 16,000 voters or Samburu East with 17,000 voters and be allocated the same resources. It is not right. I think in the spirit we have in this House, we must address this issue in the next 12 months as we deal with the review of the Constitution. Sometimes, Thika was referred to as an industrial town but now it has declined. As we dream for this country, I pray and hope that those who are in charge will consider what we need to do to bring back these industries because as has been said here by many Members, this is what determines employment for our youth. If we go to the next elections when several million youths are jobless out there, we will be back to square one despite the pieces of paper we have signed. They will end up being just that, pieces of paper. We must make a difference to these young men over the next five years, so that they do not have the appetite or time to take up"
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