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    "id": 429550,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waititu",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Munyua Waititu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Motion. I echo the words of hon. Kabando wa Kabando. This is the Eleventh Parliament. As such, we should all be talking in one voice and thinking in same way about our country. The Presidential Speech cut across the country. It is about insecurity, education, agriculture, land, water and many other things. The President brought the two Houses of Parliament together and gave a very lively Speech. We have Departmental Committees, each of which has over 29 Members. The Committees are supposed to be watchdogs to the Cabinet Secretaries. Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta is the first President to preside over this country under the new governance structure. It is not easy to run a country when you have a new structure like that of devolved government. We support devolution. The devolved units also have “Cabinet Secretaries” and “Principal Secretaries”. It is the duty of this House not to only criticise the Speech that the President made in this House but rather to take our duties very seriously, as elected leaders, and help the President. On Security, we have the Cabinet Secretary and the Inspector-General of Police. If we find that the country’s security is not being in order, through the Departmental Committee responsible for security, we should try to find out whether these people are working in the way they are supposed to work. If they are not, since we are the ones who vetted and cleared them for those positions, we can also send them home. I want us to work together as a House, and not as Jubilee or CORD. We should work together as the Eleventh Parliament that Kenyans are watching. Kenyans are not even watching the county governments. Kenyans are watching the national Parliament, which they are depending on---"
}