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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. G.W. Omondi",
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        "legal_name": "George Washinton Mallan Omondi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the President’s Address. I am shocked to listen to the drama that has been going on in this Parliament about the President’s Speech. From the outset, I would like to say that I am one of the CORD hon. Members who came to listen to the President’s Speech. I listened to him from the beginning to the end. I did not find him very combative the way I have seen my colleagues behaving in a combative way and chest-thumping. The President did not thump his chest when he addressed us. He was very polite and he wanted to convey to Kenyans what he was going to do; and that is exactly what he did. He talked to all Kenyans, and not the Jubilee Coalition Members or the CORD Coalition Members. That is the way we should take it. Those who are criticizing and saying that we should not have come here are missing the point. We do take it that everybody knows the Constitution. We have been saying that whatever the President did was constitutional and therefore, there was nothing different from what he was doing. But he was addressing Kenyans from Parliament which is used to a big man President. He was telling them that he was one of them and he was removing himself from power temporarily to attend to his personal matters. Therefore, I do not think he should be criticized on that. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there are so many good things that the President said here and, first of all, the President led Kenya from the front. One of the things he said is that Kenya is highly regarded in the international community and there are so many investors who are interested in putting their investments in Kenya. He said The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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