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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ndambuki",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Agriculture",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Musyoka Ndambuki",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity to support this Motion. First and foremost, I would like to thank hon. Members. For the last five years, I have been the Chairman of the National Prayer Breakfast. Every time, I would call Members and they have been really helpful and supportive. I thank them and ask those who are vying to come back to this House to continue with the habit of having such a fellowship. That is because it encourages Members from other countries to visit us. It is also another way of selling this country. I also want to thank the Speaker of the National Assembly. It is through him that we got some hon. Members to travel to other countries to participate there. I want to appeal to hon. Members that we preach peace as we campaign. This has been said by almost every Member. I do not see why we should lose even a single soul because of politics. We can achieve what we want to achieve peacefully without hurting anybody. However, if we continue preaching hatred and tribalism, those things are going to recur. We do not want to go through what we experienced in 2007/2008. We spent so much time trying to put committees together. Now that the healing has been achieved, I would like to urge hon. Members to watch their words as they campaign so that we do not end up losing anybody. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank hon. Members for the support they have given our Ministry. For the last five years, I have been in this House answering Questions and debating on Motions related to agriculture. I would like to thank them for their assistance and participation. This time round, we are expecting a bumper harvest. I appeal to the Government to take care of those people who have no food at the moment. There is food in the"
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