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"speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My names are Eng. Nicholas Gumbo, the Member of Parliament for Rarieda Constituency. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to relate an experience that I had recently. That incident has to do with the campaigns that we went through recently. Personally, I believe that affected all of us. The campaigns were extremely tough and many times, as an engineer, I wanted to find a mathematical model to try to explain why they were so tough. Recently, I went to a friend of mine's house and they had just had a baby boy. The mother said she would name the baby boy after me and hope that, one day, he too would become a Member of Parliament like me. Then, I looked at the little guy and he smiled at me. I started wondering what chances he had of becoming a Member of Parliament. So, I looked at the 210 Members of Parliament and our population of 38 million. It occurred to me that, that little guy, his chances of ever becoming a Member of Parliament is one out 180,000, which translates into 0.0005 per cent. I am sure Prof. Saitoti will bear me out. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think hon. Members here deserve commendation and, on that note, I want to thank the Almighty God, my creator, my parents, the late Francis Gumbo and my mother, Dorcas Chek, the people of Rarieda, the Orange Democratic Movement and all those who came to campaign for me to make it to this august House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Speech by His Excellency the President, in my view, should be viewed as a victory for all Kenyans. I think it is something that all of us have a duty to support. But, even as we support it, I think we owe it to Kenyans, as leaders, that we have to stop the culture of impunity. If you look at the leadership of this country, many times you wonder if some of the leaders we have in Kenya have made it a duty to try to write a biblical version of George Orwell's"
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