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    "id": 487944,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am not in the best of health today. My voice, as you can clearly hear, is not the normal voice but I hope Kenyans will bear with me. I rise to second this Motion. Ordinarily, this is a Procedural Motion but allow me first to take this opportunity to officially congratulate my two colleagues--- Hon. Kuria who was actually with me in campus at one point, although he was two years ahead of me, but we happened to have gone to school at the same time before he decided to go and study hawking as I was studying financial matters. So, I congratulate him because he is now again my colleague but now he is my junior in the National Assembly for winning his seat. Although I know some people have been saying he was actually selected, but he won his seat the way he won. Even winning your seat strategically is good enough because a lot of effort goes into strategy. I want to congratulate hon. Kariuki who also happens to be very young and intelligent as you can see him. When I campaigned for him, I realized that the people of Mathare were just about to make the right decision and they did not disappoint me. They made the right decision of electing such a sharp young mind. Hon. Speaker, the Committees they have been appointed to - the only issue we have discussed with hon. Kariuki and the leadership of the House will look into probably later because hon. Kariuki was initially supposed to join the Departmental Committee of Energy, Communication and Information. I know someone will say that this belongs to Jubilee but even the CORD side had surrendered a position in the Departmental Committee in charge of energy to hon. Tong’i and that position used to be held by hon. Bichage. I hope that the Jubilee side of leadership will be magnanimous enough to realign those and have our representative from CORD to be in that Committee in charge of energy so that they can swap the position so that we do not have controversies even where they are not necessary. Many times, we have agreed both in the Tenth Parliament and in the Eleventh Parliament. I can see the Leader of the Majority Party, who is my good friend except when it comes to issues of referendum--- That is where we disagree and we also many times disagree on who actually won the 2013 Presidential Elections. But many times, we agree on all other things except those two controversial issues. Otherwise, with those few remarks, I second the Motion."
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