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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wambugu",
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        "legal_name": "Clement Muchiri Wambugu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion of Adjournment. First and foremost, I thank all the Members of this House for their very constructive contributions they gave when we debated the Vetting of Judges and Magistrates Bill and the Judicial Service Bill. I would also like to take this chance to welcome our new Member from Kirinyaga to this House. Like you said, the place where he was in before – that is in Survey – there was order, we would also request the same; that we also have order in this House. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, like many speakers have spoken before on national issues, this country has been turned into a theatre or a hall of drama. It has been very discouraging to see hon. Members or even our leaders coming out in public to insult one another. We would like the senior members of the Government like Ministers or even leaders of various political parties to restrain from making dangerous statements, especially when they are addressing barazas or even when they are doing it on television. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think it will be a good time for us when we get back home to concentrate on development projects, especially the ones funded through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) and the Economic Stimulus Program (ESP). I would like, at this moment, to thank the Minister for Education because of the ESP programs that we have seen within the education sector. I think that has contributed positively towards the results of last year. I also take this opportunity to congratulate all the students who sat for the KCSE last year and their results were announced the other day. I would also like to congratulate the students of Mathira Constituency who performed extremely well. We are happy and we also encourage the others who are in Form IV to continue reading and putting in more effort so that we can get better results. We have been talking about drought in this House for a long time. I believe this is one of the countries which are blessed with very many rivers and good terrain but because of lack of planning year in, year out, we are always talking about famine. I request the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Water and Irrigation to come together so that we can get some solutions for this country. Recently – I think it was sometimes last year – we had a very good project in the Yatta region and the Tana River Delta and a lot of food was harvested in that area. But, unfortunately, because of lack of planning, all that food went to waste. We would like the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation and the Ministry of Roads to work together so that we can get some of those products out of those places. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are now going into our third year of this term of Parliament under the Grand Coalition Government. It is very sad that as we sit here, we still have some members of the Kenyan society who still live in camps as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). That is an issue that has been discussed in this House many times. I think there is always a statement being made in this House about the IDPs every week. Let the IDPs not be used as a political tool come 2012, because we think or believe that there are some people in the background who could be thinking of using the IDPs come 2012 so that they can get an extra mileage."
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