{"id":355296,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/355296/?format=json","text_counter":350,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kariuki Ndegwa","speaker_title":"The Member for Lamu West","speaker":{"id":2104,"legal_name":"Julius Ndegwa Kariuki","slug":"julius-ndegwa-kariuki"},"content":" Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. My name is hon. Julius NdegwaKariuki from Lamu West. First and foremost, I would like to congratulate you for being elected the Speaker of the Eleventh Parliament. I would also like to congratulate our Deputy Speaker, Hon. (Dr.) Laboso. I want to thank my electorate who elected me to the Eleventh Parliament. I would like to let my fellow colleagues know that Lamu is Kenya. This is because they normally ask me how I was elected in Lamu West Constituency. Kenyans live in Lamu and everybody has a right to be elected in that constituency."}