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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ndiritu",
    "speaker_title": "The Member for Gilgil",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu",
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    "content": " Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion. Before I support it, let me say that, as the Chair has indicated, this is my maiden speech. I would like to start by thanking the good people of Gilgil for having had confidence in me. This is a new constituency and I have been given the honour of setting the standard for it. I will digress a bit before I go into the Motion of the day. Most of the Members have been in Gilgil visiting the Great Rift Valley Golf Club, which is in Gilgil. Most people think that it is in Naivasha, but when you come to the Great Rift Valley Golf Club, then you are in my constituency. Gilgil is blessed with an Army Camp, the National Youth Service and the Anti-Stock Theft Unit Headquarters; but with all those blessings, the people of Gilgil never benefit. Just as hon. Members have said, those close to the national parks do not benefit directly. The people of Naivasha have not benefited from the Anti-Stock Theft Unit Headquarters in Gilgil. Even with the Anti-Stock Theft Unit Headquarters in Naivasha, people come to Gilgil with meat boxes on pick-ups, steal cows, slaughter them and carry them as beef from the slaughterhouses. The meat is taken to as far as Rumuruti. We have had that problem for long. I would like to ask the Inspector-General to look into this. Last week, poaching of our animals was done barely a kilometre away from the Anti-Stock Theft Unit Headquarters. Yesterday, there was a Motion about bailing out the agricultural parastatals that are going to be taken to the county governments. Various factories have been in Gilgil for many years. Most of the Members have seen posho mills, farm implements and even the trolleys at the airports. They are all manufactured in Gilgil;"
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