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"speaker_name": "Mr. Muriithi",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for recognising me on the hundredth attempt. My names are Mr. Nderitu Muriithi and I am the Member of Parliament for Laikipia West. I sympathise with my colleague from Kasipul Kabondo because Laikipia West, like his constituency, covers two districts and has 106,000 registered voters. So, as you can well see, it is due for sub-division. I thank you for the opportunity you have given me to address this august House and contribute to the debate on the Presidential Address. Let me congratulate my colleagues - being my first time to (address the House -for being elected to this House. Let me also express gratitude to voters of Laikipia West for according me the privilege to serve them in this House and to serve Kenya at large. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, many people have been thanked for the role that they played in the last one and a half months in bringing Kenya back to normalcy. We should also thank the many Kenyans who, in fact, spend many hours persuading and working with political leaders to achieve the resolution. For example, the Citizen Pathway, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and the Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM), just to mention a few. We owe them a great deal of thanks. I also want to recognise the excellent work that the House did yesterday in passing the two Bills that will allow this country to move forward. I believe that yesterday was, perhaps, the easy part. The real work is about whether we are up to the task of delivering a new Constitution to this country. The real question is whether we as political leaders who use ethnicity as the card that brings us voters and the thing that champions or propels our political cause, are, in fact, up to the challenge of bringing and delivering a new Constitution to this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is crucial and paramount that we do this. It is my view that the very notion of a nation-State, Kenya, is under serious and constant attack. The idea that certain parts of Kenya belong to certain people and not others and that the right to property is only available to you as a citizen if you are in a certain part of the country are not ideas that can work in the modern State. They are not ideas that can build a modern State called Kenya. We all know that when most of us Kenyans go to an institution to seek service, the first question we ask ourselves is: Who do I know in that institution? The reason is that, as citizens, we have lost faith in institutions and the ability of institutions to both provide services and to arbitrate issues with impartiality. Nobody in this country seems to really care about the rule of law. It is, in fact, a concept that learned friends talk about. So, we must, of necessity and urgency, bring and deliver a new Constitution to this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, reflecting on the Presidential Address, I want to join my colleagues who have stressed the importance of livestock and the fact that we need the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development to move with haste to restore Kenya's status as a livestock disease-free country. This will create market for Kenya in countries outside our borders. I urge that the Ministry looks at restoring the holding grounds because, as you well know, when livestock moves to markets further south---"
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