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    "id": 278974,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Speaker",
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    "content": "Your Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya and Commander-in-Chief of the Defence Forces, hon. Mwai Kibaki, honourable Members of Parliament, it is my singular honour and privilege to welcome Your Excellency and all hon. Members to this Second State of the Nation Address. Your Excellency, Sir, today is, as a matter of fact, your day, and I will thus, with your indulgence, say the following. We at Parliament are glad that as one of the three arms of your Government, we have endeavoured to do our part to make Kenya a better place. We have joined hands with you to see to increased democratic space, to enact, implement and operationalise a new Constitution in our time. The Tenth Parliament has performed, to unprecedented levels, in all core areas of its tripartite mandate of legislation, representation and oversight, to wit, but just one; passage of 76 Bills, 64 of them Government Bills and 12 Private Members Bills. Your Excellency, Sir, and hon. Members, in my speech, as I submitted myself to the collective will of this House after you elected me to be the Speaker on 15th January, 2008, I promised that “I shall preside over progressive reforms, take Parliament to the people and remain alert to the needs of the people of Kenya.” I am satisfied that we have done well; largely performed above average. Your Excellency and Kenyans, whatever we have not done and that it is our duty to do as the Tenth Parliament, we recommit ourselves to do before we leave."
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