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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Karaba",
    "speaker_title": "The Senator for Kiranyaga County",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Dickson Karaba",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much for sparing the eye to see me this evening. I started standing from yesterday and I was almost giving up, but all is not lost. I start by congratulating you for being elected as the Deputy Speaker and I also congratulate everybody here for having got the slot to come to the Senate and be a Member of the Upper House. I salute the President for being what he has been and for winning the presidency. I also want to thank the residents of Kirinyaga for electing me to the Eleventh Parliament. I was here in the Ninth Parliament where we did a lot of work with the present speakers. I do agree that the Speech was good and up to the point. That is the reason most of us are here so that they can talk about the Presidential Speech. It was an inspiring speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Speech talks about the constitutional changes and constitutional making. I am sure you were here in 2004/2005 to make this constitution and it has now come to be in place in this Eleventh Parliament and with the Government that we have been looking forward to. It is important, therefore, to note that I being one of the victims of the Constitution, I have noted that it has brought a lot of reforms, especially in the judiciary where it is possible to dispense 180 petition cases unlike before. I had won in 2007 and stayed in the cold for almost four years, when I was still petitioning. I won the case and Kriegler came all the way from South Africa to say that I had won the election. So, it is through that struggle that we get to know that a lot of reforms are underway and that is why we can afford even to talk here about devolution, petitions which will be dispensed off within six months and the good things which have been initiated, as is read in the Presidential Speech. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I was seated here from yesterday, I heard and noted quite a lot of contradictions from the Members of this Senate. Some of them have been senior Ministers in the past Government and did not do much when they were in those positions. They were not able to arrest the numerous corruption scandals which took place in the Government that they served. What they said towards the end was that the infrastructure is bad and roads have not been developed. They also said that some The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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