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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support this Motion. I beg to request your indulgence to speak from the Dispatch Box because this is the last time I am speaking in Parliament after being in Parliament for 25 years, which is a whole quarter of a century. Perhaps, I came into Parliament three years before you were born, knowing that you came here at 28 years, maybe eight years before you were born, to be exact. First, let me thank the people of Kisumu County who elected me to this Senate and the people of Kisumu Rural Constituency who elected me several times to represent them in the National Assembly. I am grateful for the support they have given me and for the encouragement they gave me to go back to Kisumu County and contest the seat of governor, so that we can realise the fruits of devolution. Under my party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), which I served for 10 years as Secretary General, I would like to thank our party leader, Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga, for having led this party so solidly and for having brought us into the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, which obviously, as Sen. Kamainza has said, will definitely form the next Government. Having said that, I thank some of my colleagues with whom I have worked very closely in this Senate and particularly those colleagues with whom I have worked in three Committees of this Senate. One Committee I worked on for one year, is the Committee on Devolved Government. I will not mention--- I know that the Members there as Sen. Murkomen and others remember that Committee with fondness. However, I would like to thank Members of the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee, with whom I have worked with for the last four and a half years, first, under the chairmanship of Sen."
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