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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, allow me to start by thanking you most sincerely for the directive you made that we should amend our Standing Orders so that Cabinet Secretaries should be coming here to answer Questions, like what you have just dealt with. I think this is a matter that this House has talked about for a long time. I have been in the forefront talking about it and I want to thank you for leading from the front. But since we are going for the weekend, allow me to start by being a little prophetic. I subscribe to the Christian faith and subscribing to the Christian faith means I am a follower of Jesus Christ who is regarded as one of the most knowledgeable and wisest of all prophets. They say knowledge speaks; wisdom listens. So if you have knowledge and wisdom, you are a man of virtue. But even this virtuous prophet in one of the verses in the Bible, when he was speaking, one day he turned to his disciples and asked: “Who do people say I am?” In other words, Jesus Christ was looking for feedback. I have heard the Leader of Majority Party talk about the Bills and I want to take over from where my colleague has left. Today, the biggest problem in our country and this affects everybody; whether you are in CORD or Jubilee; whether you are white or black; is the cost of living and youth unemployment. In fact, it is said that other than the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is basically a dysfunctional state, Kenya has the second largest youth unemployment at 40 per cent in Africa. These are matters which concern us. There is the issue of insecurity; the issue of poverty; the rich-poor divide; corruption issues and national cohesion. I can go on and on."
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