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    "id": 690916,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mule",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Mutinda Mule",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to add my voice on the Adjournment Motion. I would like to congratulate you for the guidance and assistance that you have accorded us for the good work we have been doing within and outside Kenya. I want to thank the House for working very hard during this Session to pass very crucial Bills. My colleagues have alluded to the Banking (Amendment) Bill that curbs interest rates in the banks. This week, we also voted to pass a Bill because of the girl-child. I believe we achieved a milestone. We enacted the Finance Bill with amendments that do not tax sanitary pads. This ensures that more girls are sustained in schools, and we also make some savings for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to make sure that quite a number of girls are provided with sanitary pads by the Government. I want to thank you for supporting different caucuses in this House without prejudice despite knowing that Committees also work very hard. Last month, I travelled to South Africa and I was elected the Chairman of the Tuberculosis (TB) Caucus, African Chapter. I have taken it up very well. I want to thank you on behalf of the members of the caucus. You have been very passionate about this issue. I want to pass the gratitude of my co-chair, Minister for Health in South Africa, Hon. Motsoaledi for the leadership and guidance he has shown on this issue. Presently, all African countries have taken up our model to form caucuses to fight the menace of TB in Africa. I want to thank you very much and pass gratitude and appreciation which came from the leader of Global AIDS Vaccine Initiative GAVI) who met the Departmental Committee on Heath yesterday at the Main Chambers at the County Hall. It was quite interesting. I wish Members were here to hear what the GAVI leader said. Yesterday when we met him, he said that he could not believe the quality and passion is so. He could not even imagine that even the British Parliament can get to the standard we are getting into when it comes to advocacy on issues of immunisation in the country. I thank Members. I thank you and the Table team. First and foremost, being a first-time Member of Parliament, I have at least moved the Biomedical Engineers Bill which is coming for the Third Reading once we come back from recess. I urge you as the Chairman of the House Business Committee (HBC); please fast-track Members‘ Bills in this House so that we can at least tell our communities and people that ―I went to Parliament and walked away with a Bill which is privately sponsored.‖ On the issue of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund, CDF is the best model which can ever be looked for in this country for development. I urge the House to think on how we can increase money to CDF in the near future. That is to make sure we are able to get more development at the constituencies‘ level. I want to briefly talk about party-hopping. Members do not understand what we have done today. We have said many families and Kenyans today are in bankruptcy when they lose elections after party-hopping. I want to tell them that northern Kenya has given us the direction on the issue of how nominations of parties need to be done. I urge Members to read Clause 2(d) of the Bill we have just passed this afternoon. It is clear. I want this to go on record, a candidate for presidency, parliamentary or county election---"
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