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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Maore",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Richard Maoka Maore",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Speech by His Excellency the President on the 20th of this month. I would like to join those who have contributed to this debate, starting with the Chair, about the major achievements of the Ninth Parliament specifically having devolved the resources to the constituencies through the CDF. A lot of propagandists, specifically from the Government, do not want to make reference to the efforts and time put in by hon. Members of this Parliament especially Eng. Muriuki for initiating this Fund during the Eighth Parliament up to its conclusion when it was implemented by the Ninth Parliament. The Ministry of Education also, with the initiative of Parliament, allocated some bursary funds to the constituencies whereby there is a problem of over-expectation about what these funds can achieve. It is on this note that I join those who are calling upon the Government to put forward the proposal for free secondary education. Mr. Speaker, Sir, most of the children who have left Form Four are not able to obtain their certificates to enable them to either go to any training colleges or seek jobs because their results cannot be released by their respective schools owing to debts that they have in those institutions. While celebrating the major achievements of the Ninth Parliament, it is also important to recall that it was during the Ninth Parliament when we mourned the death of Parliamentary democracy arising from the death of the ruling party and then we had collection of ashes and put them into the Government of National Unity that came up. For many years to come, those of us who understand Commonwealth Parliamentary Democracy, take this to be a semblance of democracy introduced by some elected Members of Parliament who turned out to be con men after being elected; by mixing up any issues that would not make reference to a political party. Kenyans are being bothered about this party and that party. They have never seen a manifesto before. I know of hon. Members in these parties who have contested in different parties during elections in 1992, 1997 and 2002. We want to nurture our democracy and make sure that, one day, history will have a foundation from the institutions that we are building or the ones we are having today."
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